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20 Rufiyaa Football
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Arabic/Thaana |
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| Reverse description | Two football players in high relief are depicted in the central field contesting a ball at their feet, rendered in a dynamic, naturalistic style contrasting frosted figures against a mirror-polished background. Behind the players, a stylised cityscape is visible, with the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) to the left and a modern stadium structure to the right, evoking the contrast between football's Olympic debut in 1908 London and the 2012 London Games. A striated ground line occupies the lower portion of the inner field. The circular legend FOOTBALL AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1908 - 2012 arcs around the upper periphery, and the denomination 20 RUFIYAA is inscribed along the lower exergue. |
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Issued to coincide with Maldives' participation in the 2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship, which the country hosted. The Maldives Football Association had been working to raise the sport's profile domestically, and commemorative coinage was part of a broader push to monetize the event's visibility. Collector demand for Maldivian silver issues from this period has been modest, and mintage figures for KM#104 are not widely documented in major references, leaving population data genuinely thin.