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1/4 Rupee - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Issuer | Mauritius |
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| Year | 1960-1978 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1835-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays four heraldic emblems arranged in a quatrefoil composition: a Tudor Rose (lower left), a Lotus Flower (lower right), a Fleur-de-lis (centre bottom), and a Crown (top centre), all within a beaded border. The encircling legend reads * MAURITIUS * above and QUARTER·RUPEE· followed by the date below, with the designer's initials KG appearing beneath the Fleur-de-lis. Two six-pointed stars flank the issuer name at the upper periphery. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mauritius remained a British Crown Colony through most of this issue's run, achieving independence in 1968 without interrupting the coinage — the same Elizabeth II effigy by Mary Gillick continued circulating unchanged for a decade afterward. The Gillick portrait, used across dozens of Commonwealth territories from the early 1950s, was never formally commissioned as a definitive colonial type; it migrated from the original UK coinage almost by institutional momentum.