250 Rufiyaa Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta departed Tangier in 1325 and eventually reached the Maldives around 1343, where he served — reluctantly, by his own account in the Rihla — as a qadi for approximately eighteen months before local politics made his position untenable and he left. The Maldives issued this coin in 1995 to mark the 625th anniversary of his birth, joining a broader wave of commemorative programs across the Islamic world that decade tied to the same milestone.