Collection: Mozambique Banknotes

The coat of arms on the Mozambican banknote from the eighties featured a crossed hoe and an AK-47 assault rifle over a star and a wreath of wheat and corn: the revolutionary iconography of a country that had just emerged from a war of independence and was entering another, a civil one.

From the colonial escudo to the metical

The metical replaced the Portuguese escudo on June 16, 1980, five years after independence. The Bank of Mozambique, the sole issuer, marked the first banknotes with the watermark of former President Samora Machel.

From hundreds of thousands to a new metical

The civil war between FRELIMO and RENAMO, which lasted until 1992, sent inflation soaring to the point where 500,000 meticais banknotes had to be issued. In 2005, the country changed its currency again: one thousand old meticais became worth just one, and since 2011, banknotes have been printed on polymer.

What you will find here

Mozambican meticais with Pick reference and actual condition.

Shipping

Protected and tracked from Spain.

Discover more banknotes from the region in African Banknotes.

If you are interested in this area, combine with Malawi and Zimbabwe.