Mauritania 200 Ouguiya 28.11.2002 (Y018/447902xx) UNC

200 Ouguiya 28.11.2002 (© Front: Geometric and ornamental guilloche patterns and designs with native motives on both sides of the banknote. Back: Decorated pestle and mortar. A dugout canoe, a palm tree and a balancing perch pole for offloading. Watermark: Head of an old bearded man**. Security thread: Green, solid, vertical, fully embedded 1 mm wide with "BANQUE CENTRALE DE MAURITANIE" repeated. Main colours: Brown-orange and olive-green. Signatures: (Nº8, R2L): Yahya Ould Athighe (Governor, Head of the Central Bank, August 2002 – January 2003); Yahya Ould Amou (Chief Cashier – Directeur General de la Caisse, 1989–2007). Artist: G+D. Issuer: Central Bank of Mauritania. Date of issue: 28 November 2002. Withdrawn: 1 January 2019. Material: Cotton fiber paper. Printing method: Intaglio. Printer: Giesecke & Devrient, Munich, Germany (G&D, G+D)) © (Serial Nos: Y018/447902xx) UNC

Dimensions: 156 x 80 mm

Catalogue Number: P-5j (SCWPM: Albert Pick; Krause Publications); B105k (Banknote Book)

Grade/condition: Uncirculated (UNC) (new, unused, mint) GRADING INFO

**/ Back in 1974 when the first BCM bank governor Ahmed Ould Daddah was visiting the island of Gorée, he purchased a portrait of a bearded elderly man (Sidi Ethmane Ould Mohamed Mahmoud Essemlaly, a Smalils sharif). The portrait was painted by Myrto Debard, a French artist. Source: Banknote Book

Texts: Banque Centrale de Mauritanie. البنك المركزي الموريتاني. Deux Cents Ouguiya. مائتي أوقية. Two Hundred Ouguiya. Les auteurs ou complices de falsification ou de contrefaçon de billets de banque seront punis conformément aux lois et actes en vigueur. BCM.