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Mozambique banknotes
Mozambique paper money catalog and Mozambique currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Portuguese currency, till 1975
  • Milreis = 1000 Reis, 1877-1914
  • Escudo = 100 Centavos, 1914-1975
  • Mozambique Libra = British Pound, (1914-1938)
  • Metica = (Escudo) = 100 Centimos, 1975-2006
  • Metica = (1.000 old Metica) = 100 Centimos, from 2006

• For Portugal used notes see:
  • Portugal

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Pick #	Date
		Portuguese Colony, till 1975
1-8	1877-78	1.000, 2.000, 2.500, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000 reis
9-22	1884-97	1.000, 2.000, 2.500, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000, 50.000 reis
23-29	1906	1.000, 2.00, 2.500, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000 reis
30-31	1908	2.500, 5.000 reis
32-43	1909	1.000, 2.000, 2.5000, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000 reis
44-49	1909	1, 5, 10, 20 Libras
53-55	1914	10, 20, 50 centavos
56-58	1914	10, 20, 50 centavos
59-61	1914	10, 20, 50 centavos
62-65	1920	10, 20, 50 centavos, 50 escudos
66-72	1921	1, 2.50, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 escudos
72A-B	(1929)	100, 1.000 escudos; overprint on 1 and 20 Libras
73	1932	500 escudos
74-76	1937-8	20, 50, 100 escudos
77-79	1941	100, 500, 1.000 escudos
80	1941	50 centavos
81-84	1941	1, 2.50, 5, 10 escudos
85-88	1941	20, 50, 500, 1.000 escudos
89-91	1943	5, 10, 100 escudos
92-99	1944-7	1, 2.50, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
101	1947	500 escudos
102-5	1950-53	50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
106-8	1958	50, 100, 500 escudos
109-12	1961-72	50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
113-15	1972.05	100, 500, 1.000 escudos
		Republic, from 1975
116-19	(1976)	50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
125-28	1980	50, 100, 500, 1.000 Meticais
129-33	1983-89	50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 Meticais
134-9	1991-	500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 100.000 Meticais
140	1999	20.000 Meticais
141-2	2003	200.000, 500.000 Meticais
143-8	2006	20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 Meticais
149-	2011-	20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 Meticais

Pick #	Date
		Regional: Companhia de Mocambique, Beria
R1-11	1919	10, 20, 50, 50 centavos, 1/2, 1, 1, 5, 5, 10, 20 Libras
R11A	1919	1 escudo
R11-12	1921	10, 20 Libras
R14-23A	(192-)	10, 20, 50, 50 centavos, 1/2, 1, 1, 5, 5, 10, 20 Libras, 1 escudo; overprinted
R24-27	1930-31	10, 20 centavos, 1/2, 1 Libra
R28-32	1933-34	10, 20 centavos, 1/2, 1, 5 Libras
R33	1937	1 escudos