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250 Rufiyaa Swimming
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Thickness | 2.8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the national arms of the Maldives, comprising a crescent and six-pointed star flanked by two crossed national flags, surmounted by a coconut palm tree in high relief. A scroll bearing an Arabic legend in the exergue area appears beneath the central device. The Gregorian date '1990' is inscribed to the upper left of the field, with the corresponding AH date '١٤١٠' to the upper right. The legend 'MALDIVES' appears along the lower rim in Latin script, with the country name in Thaana script to the lower right. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Maldives Monetary Authority issued this piece as part of a broader wave of commemorative silver coinage produced by small island nations during the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely marketed to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation. The rufiyaa itself had been reintroduced as the official currency only in 1981, replacing a brief experiment with a decimal-based laari system, and the MMA moved aggressively into the numismatic collector market shortly after establishing its footing.
KM#80 was struck at a foreign facility — the MMA maintained no domestic mint — and saw negligible use within the archipelago.