20 Rufiyaa

The Maldives Monetary Authority replaced the earlier Maldives Monetary Board in 1981, and the rufiyaa series issued under its name reflected the country's gradual integration into international monetary standards — including the shift to Thomas De La Rue for production, a printer that has handled island and small-state currencies across the Indian Ocean and Pacific for decades. De La Rue's involvement here is unsurprising given the MMA's preference for established security printers over the note's entire modern series history.

Pick 20 spans nearly a decade of issue dates, which often complicates precise dating for collectors — the series was not retired quickly.