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100 Dirhams Year of Zayed
| Issuer | Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Reference(s) | TBB#245 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in shades of violet, blue and rose on a fine guilloche ground. A perched falcon occupies the left field in detailed intaglio, set against a stylised date-palm frond vignette. The central vignette presents the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi, its sweeping asymmetric arch towers faithfully reproduced in steel-engraved linework, reflected over a calm waterway. Denomination numerals '100' appear in guilloche cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the year '2018' in a rocaille cartouche at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Optically variable ink |
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The "Year of Zayed" designation marks the centenary of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's birth in 1918, and this note was part of a broader national commemorative program that extended across postage, coinage, and currency simultaneously. The UAE had already issued commemorative banknotes on prior occasions, but this release carried unusual political weight — Zayed remains the founding figure of the federation itself, and the Central Bank's participation was essentially mandated by the commemorative calendar rather than any monetary necessity.
Cotton substrate on a note of this size and denomination is unremarkable for the region, but the TBB reference suggests limited secondary-market documentation relative to the print run, which was substantial.