Catalog
50 Rufiyaa
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A vignette at left centre shows fishermen hauling boats from the shoreline into open water, rendered against a colourful coastal underprint. To the right, a seated boy is shown in the act of reciting from the Holy Quran, evoking the nation's Islamic heritage. Denominational numerals and text appear in both Latin and Thaana scripts within a guilloche framework. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Maldives switched to polymer substrate for this series as part of a broader regional trend among island and coastal nations where humidity and salt air degrade cotton-paper notes at an accelerated rate — a practical engineering decision as much as a security one. Thomas De La Rue had been producing Maldivian currency since the 1980s, making this a continuation of a long-standing contract rather than a competitive tender result.
P#28 lists only a watermark among security features, which is notably sparse for a polymer issue — most contemporaneous De La Rue polymer notes incorporated clear window devices or optically variable elements. Whether additional unrecorded features exist on circulating examples remains a cataloging gap.