200 Dirhams

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.