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5 Ouguiya small type
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2009-2012 |
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| Composition | Brass plated steel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 20 09 5 OUGUIYA BANQUE CENTRALE DE MAURITANIE |
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Mauritania's ouguiya is one of only two world currencies not based on the decimal system — divided into 5 khoums rather than 100 subunits, a structure rooted in traditional West African exchange ratios predating colonial monetary organization. The "small type" designation distinguishes this issue from the physically larger earlier brass pieces, a reduction carried out by the Banque Centrale as a cost-control measure during a period when global commodity prices made the original planchet specifications increasingly uneconomical.
Brass-plated steel replaced solid brass beginning with this type, a substitution common across Sahelian nations during the late 2000s commodity spike.