MOZAMBIQUE

Pick#..................... 129b
Banknote Book #  214b
Denomination ......50 Meticais
Date........................1986
Condition..............UNC
Comments............

Soldiers marking in formation with rifles, tanks in background, and flag raising ceremony on front.  Soldiers in training in the bush on reverse.

Watermark: President Samora Moises Machel.

Metical = Derived from Arabic Mitqal: a weight measuring unit of 4.83 grams of gold used for trade between Arabs and locals before the Portuguese colonized Mozambique. Plural in Portuguese is Meticais.