200 Ouguiya

Features

Issuer	Mauritania
Issuing entity	Central Bank of Mauritania (البنك المركزي الموريتاني)
Period	Islamic Republic (1960-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	2013
Value	200 Ouguiya (200 MRO)
Currency	Old Ouguiya (1973-2018)
Composition	Paper
Size	134 × 65 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	1 January 2019
Number	N# 209724
References	P# 17 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Geometric and ornamental designs with native motives

Script: Arabic

Lettering:
البنك المركزي الموريتاني

مائتي أوقية ٢٠٠

Translation: Central Bank of Mauritania, 200 Two Hundred Ouguiya

Reverse

Decorated pestle and mortar, A dugout canoe, Palm tree, and Balancing perch pole

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANQUE CENTRALE DE MAURITANIE

LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON
DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMEMENT
AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR

200 DEUX CENTS OUGUIYA

Translation: Central Bank of Mauritania, Authors or accomplices of falsification or counterfeit banknotes will be punished in accordance with the laws and acts in force, Two Hundred Ouguiya

Watermark

Printer

Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date)

Comments

Under backlight the security strip can be read. It has “BCM 200” repeated on it:

Also, on the obverse there is a panel with colour-changing ink on the left. At different angles you can see it change from “BCM” to “200” written twice:

UV activity (365nm). Only the “BCM” shows up on the obverse:

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
2013-Nov-28										$ 2.40		(fr) 17

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