Mozambique Coins Info

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for:

http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/Mozambique.html

Use the "click here to view all" link to get pictures of all the coins listed.

I know that Mozambique recently reformed their money. Here is a clip from Wikipedia:

New Metical

A new Metical was introduced on July 1st 2006. 1000 old metecais = 1 new Metical. US$1 = 25 Meticals.

Both currencies will circulate until December 31, 2006. After that the old currency will not be valid but it will be redeemed by the Bank of Mozambique until the end of 2012.

Hope that helps.

Now the civil war is finally over in Mozambique, they can get back to something like a normal economy. While the war was on, and even for some time afterwards, they had very high inflation and issuing circulation coins was futile; they'd only circulate for a year until they became effectively worthless. Since July when that Wikipedia was posted, they've fallen to 27:1 to the US$ - a much slower inflation rate than they used to have.

The Wikipedia article does mention new coins released with the coinage reform, presumably for circulation. This link is cited as a reference; it's a blog showing their new coin designs.

The fact that information on their release and issue is hard to find makes me suspect that these coins are indeed intended for circulation, rather than for us coin-collecting foreigners. No point making collector coins if the collectors can't find out about them!

Try: http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/africa.htm
http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/af-moz.htm