Maldives, 2017
5Rufiyaa
Maldivian Five Rufiyaa Banknote
- Country
- Maldives
- Issuer
- Maldives Monetary Authority
- Issue year
- 2017
- Type
- Horizontal+Vertical
- Material
- Polymer
- Size
- 150 × 70 mm
- Signature
- Azeema Adam
- Serial
- F 2 9 5 6 9 6
Currency Information
The story
Although the Maldives is not usually linked with football, the nation of atolls chose football as the theme of its 5 rufiyaa. The front figure is believed to be Captain Ali Ashfaq of the national team, with other traditional Maldivian sports and celebration imagery, and the dancers and drummers show boduberu, the traditional drum music of the islands. The back shows a Triton shell, a large sea snail found in Indo-Pacific reefs and a symbol of the Maldives’ marine life. The designs were redrawn by De La Rue with security features added, and the note belongs to the “Ran Dhiha Faheh” series, which uses a Dhivehi typeface made specially for it.
Front
Footballer kicking a football (believed to be Captain Ali Ashfaq), large fish (likely a tuna, unconfirmed), boduberu drummers and dancers in traditional dress, large drum, pink-skirted dancers, clear window with a geometric line design inside a ring of microtext “5”, pink Thaana (Dhivehi) pattern patch, Dhivehi texts and a Governor’s signature with printed name beneath, Hijri and Gregorian date line “1438 ... 2017”.
Back
Triton’s trumpet conch shell (Charonia tritonis) shown vertically, clear window with a geometric line design and a ring of microtext, small pink bracket-shaped mark, pink vertical band with a woven pattern, texts “FIVE RUFIYAA”, “MALDIVES MONETARY AUTHORITY”, “10 MAY 2017”, “MALDIVES”.
