1 Cent - Elizabeth II 1st portrait

The Seychelles remained a British Crown Colony throughout this coin's production run, administered from Mahé with a population that barely exceeded 45,000 at the time. These small bronze issues served an economy dominated almost entirely by copra and cinnamon exports, with so little internal commerce that mintage figures were correspondingly modest. The series ended just two years before Seychelles gained internal self-governance in 1970, after which the coinage was progressively redesigned to reflect shifting political realities ahead of full independence in 1976.