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500 Rufiyaa
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Rufiyaa (1947-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette is occupied by the Grand Friday Mosque and Islamic Centre in Malé, its gilded dome and minaret executed in fine intaglio detail within an arched guilloche frame. Large denomination numerals 500 appear at both the left and right margins, with the inscription "Five Hundred Rufiyaa" in red at upper right. A guilloche border with floral motifs frames the entire composition, with the issuing authority name running along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Maldives Monetary Authority introduced this denomination as the high-value anchor of its mid-1990s series, at a time when the rufiyaa was under sustained pressure from a tourism-driven dollarization of the informal economy — US dollars were routinely preferred over domestic currency for large transactions in the resort islands. Thomas De La Rue's production for the MMA during this period relied on a security watermark as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, modest by even 1990s standards for a note of this face value.
Pick 23 is the sole type for this denomination before the series was eventually superseded.