Catalog
200 Dirhams
| Issuer | United Arab Emirates Central Bank |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse carries an intaglio vignette of the Sharia Court building alongside Zayed Sports City stadium against a multicolour guilloche underprint in teal, green and pink tones. The UAE state emblem — a gold falcon — appears in a central medallion, flanked by the Arabic denomination ٢٠٠ in the upper corners and a large latent-image numeral in the centre. Two facsimile signatures appear at the lower centre, identified below as رئيس مجلس الإدارة (Chairman of the Board) and وزير المالية (Minister of Finance), with the Hijri year ١٤١٠ between them. |
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| Obverse lettering | الإمارات العربية المتحدة المصرف المركزي مائتا درهم ورقة نقدية مضمونة القيمة بموجب القانون رئيس مجلس الإدارة وزير المالية ١٤١٠ هـ |
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The 200 Dirham denomination was introduced in 1989 as a practical measure to reduce the volume of 100 Dirham notes required for larger transactions — a response to rising price levels in the UAE economy through the late 1980s. It was not a common face value in Gulf currencies at the time, and several regional central banks had resisted intermediate high denominations on the grounds that they encouraged informal cash hoarding.
De La Rue's involvement places the note firmly in the British-printed Gulf series of the period. The 200 Dirham note remains less frequently encountered than the 100 or 500 from the same issue run.