Catalog
100 Rufiyaa
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2015-2018 |
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| Currency | Rufiyaa (1947-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Maldivian Libaas dress suspended by its strap against a red and pink guilloche underprint, with a circular medallion in the upper portion bearing Dambidū Lōmāfānu early Dhivehi script in black and white; the denomination numeral '100' appears at upper right and lower left, with issuer name and date along the margins. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Transparent window |
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Thomas De La Rue's polymer substrate here is their Safeguard® material, not the Australian-origin Guardian stock used by many Pacific and Southeast Asian issuers of the same period — a distinction that matters for collectors tracking substrate provenance. The Maldives shifted to polymer for this denomination partly in response to the high humidity and saltwater exposure endemic to an archipelago where notes routinely pass through wet hands on fishing vessels and resort cash desks.
P#29 replaced the 2006 cotton paper issue. The transparent window is integrated into the substrate itself rather than applied as a patch.