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100 Rufiyaa World Food Day
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 100 Rufiyaa |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts two female agricultural workers harvesting wheat or grain crops in the field, rendered in high sculptural relief, symbolising the theme of World Food Day. The FAO logo appears at the top centre accompanied by the legend 'WORLD FOOD DAY' in Latin script. Thaana script legends are inscribed in arcs along the upper left and upper right periphery. In the lower exergue, the denomination '100' is displayed in large numerals within an oval cartouche, with a Thaana script legend immediately above it. |
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| Mintage | 1401 (1981) - 1981 ١٤٠١ - 10,000 1401 (1981) - 1981 ١٤٠١ Proof - 5,000 |
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World Food Day was established by the FAO in 1979 and first observed on October 16, 1980 — the anniversary of the organization's founding in 1945. The Maldives issue commemorating it arrived the following year, part of a broader wave of small-nation silver commemoratives produced in the early 1980s largely for the collector market rather than circulation. The Maldives had no meaningful domestic coin-collecting base at the time; pieces like this were sold primarily through overseas distributors and proof sets.
KM#64 shares its 28.28g/.925 silver specification with dozens of Commonwealth-adjacent commemoratives of the period, a format driven by the Franklin Mint and its imitators.