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5 Rufiyaa Millennium
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Thaana |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a colorful millennium commemorative logo rendered in enamel, depicting stylized motifs in yellow, red, green, purple, and orange suggestive of festive and cultural celebration, with the numeral 2000 prominently displayed in red below. The legend MILLENNIUM is inscribed along the upper right edge in Latin characters, with an inscription in Thaana script along the upper left. The year 2000 is repeated in incuse Arabic numerals along the lower center of the field. The vivid polychrome coloring contrasts sharply with the milled coin-finish background. |
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Issued to mark the turn of the millennium, this coin was produced by the Maldives Monetary Authority at a moment when the island nation was beginning to pivot its economy heavily toward tourism infrastructure — a shift that would define the following decade. The MMA had only been established in 1981, replacing the Maldives Monetary Board, so by 2000 it was still a relatively young institution issuing commemoratives with limited international distribution.
KM#A97 is the catalog variant designation, suggesting a late addition to the sequence — likely because commemorative issues from smaller Pacific and Indian Ocean states were frequently cataloged after initial publication deadlines.