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200 Rupees

Issuer Bank of Mauritius
Year 2024
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Printer Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom
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Reverse description The central vignette illustrates produce stalls at the Port Louis Central Market, rendered with detailed architectural and figural elements. A dodo bird head vignette appears at left, with multilingual text in English, Hindi, and Tamil integrated into the overall design.
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Protection type Colour-shifting ink, Polymer substrate
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Mauritius shifted its higher-denomination notes to polymer gradually, and this 200 Rupee issue is part of that ongoing transition rather than a clean relaunch. De La Rue has printed Mauritian currency for decades, so the relationship here is long-established rather than a new contract.

Polymer notes in tropical island economies tend to outlast their paper equivalents significantly in circulation — humidity and frequent handling in cash-heavy retail and tourism sectors accelerate deterioration of cotton-linen substrates, which is the practical argument behind the switch.

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