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250 Rufiyaa 1996 Olympic Games
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 31.47 g |
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| Obverse description | The central device features the national coat of arms of the Maldives, comprising a crescent and star flanked by two national flags on staffs, with a coconut palm rising above and a traditional vase below, all supported by a scrolled banner bearing an Arabic inscription. The Gregorian year '1993' appears to the left in the field and the Hijri year '١٤١٣' to the right. The legend 'MALDIVES' is inscribed along the lower left rim in Latin script, with the Thaana script legend 'ދިވެހި ރާއްޖޭ' occupying the lower right field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued three years before the Atlanta Games, this piece is part of a wave of Olympic silver struck by small-island nations throughout the early 1990s — most with no meaningful Olympic history of their own. The Maldives sent its first Olympic delegation to the 1988 Seoul Games, making the 1996 Atlanta cycle only their third participation.
KM#85 was produced for the collector market and almost certainly saw no domestic circulation.