2 Rufiyaa

Bradbury Wilkinson printed this note during the final years before the firm was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990, ending one of the longer uninterrupted runs of specialist security printing in British commercial history. By 1983 the Maldives Monetary Authority had been operational for less than a decade, having been established in 1981 to replace the Maldives Monetary Board — so this is an early issue under the authority's own name.

The Rufiyaa series of this period relied on a single watermark as the primary security feature, reflecting the modest throughput requirements of an island economy whose formal banking infrastructure was still being built out.