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100 Dirhams Year of Zayed
| Issuer | Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | الإمارات العربية المتحدة المصرف المركزي مائة درهم ورقة نقدية مضمونة القيمة بموجب القانون عام زايد YEAR OF ZAYED ١٤٤٠هـ |
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| Protection description | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan with a Dallah (traditional Arabic coffee pot) and the numeral 100 visible to the left; vertical windowed security thread with shifting colour; optically variable ink (OVI) hexagonal numeral '100' at lower left of obverse changing colour on tilt. |
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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.