100 Rufiyaa with Rufiyaa Sign

The Maldives Monetary Authority introduced the rufiyaa sign — ރ. — as an official currency symbol only in recent years, and this 2024 issue is among the first circulating notes to incorporate it as a formal typographic element rather than relying solely on the spelled-out denomination. That shift in notation carries modest but real significance for how the currency is represented in digital and financial systems.

De La Rue's polymer substrate here is the same platform used across a growing share of the MMA's recent issues, offering better durability against the humid coastal environment that degrades cotton-paper notes relatively quickly in the Maldives.