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500 Meticais
| Issuer | República de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue and Company Limited |
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| Obverse lettering | QUINHENTOS METICAIS REPÚBLICA DE MOÇAMBIQUE (Translation: Five Hundred Meticais, Republic of Mozambique) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents three traditional warriors in full ceremonial dress, armed with spears and shields, captured mid-dance against a landscape background rendered in intaglio. The circular Banco de Moçambique seal is positioned at lower left, surrounded by a radiate guilloche border. Denomination numerals appear in bold at upper left and lower right, framed by geometric patterned bands, with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Comments |
Mozambique's 1991 series was issued well into the post-independence hyperinflationary period that had gutted confidence in the metical since its introduction in 1980. The 500 metical denomination, while unremarkable by face value at the time of issue, was part of a broader printing relationship with Thomas De La Rue that Maputo relied upon heavily through the 1980s and into the 1990s, lacking domestic facilities for secure currency production.
P#134 carries only a watermark as its security provision — thin protection by De La Rue's own standards of the period, reflecting budgetary constraints rather than any technical limitation of the printer.