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500 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Size | 153 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink and mauve on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of Samora Moisés Machel appears at the right, with the bank logo and a fish used as a see-through registration device. A tree motif and a SPARK optically variable element in purple with sailboat imagery occupy the centre-left, framed by guilloche patterning throughout. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Optically variable element |
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Mozambique's central bank shifted to polymer for this denomination as part of a broader currency modernization push, following the lead of several other southern African issuers who had already moved away from cotton-based substrate in the previous decade. Polymer notes in the region have shown significantly longer circulation lifespans — roughly two to four times that of paper — a practical consideration for a country where high humidity and heavy daily handling degrade cotton notes quickly.
P#159 is among the more recent additions to the Pick catalogue and secondary market data on survival rates and printing quantities remains thin.