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1 Cent - George VI
| Issuer | Seychelles |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Weight | 1.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King George VI facing left, wearing the Imperial State Crown, modelled by Percy Metcalfe whose initials 'PM' appear below the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail on the crown's arches, crosses, and beading. The circumferential legend reads KING GEORGE THE SIXTH, arranged around the periphery with a toothed border encircling the entire obverse field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The 1948 Seychelles cent was struck at the Royal Mint as part of a modest colonial coinage reform timed loosely to coincide with George VI's post-war currency reorganizations across British dependencies. Seychelles had no local minting capacity whatsoever, and low-denomination bronze coins for the islands were produced in quantities that reflected the archipelago's tiny population — roughly 36,000 at the time — meaning mintages were kept deliberately small and circulation pools were shallow.
Surviving examples in collectible condition are somewhat harder to locate than their unassuming status suggests, largely because the humid equatorial climate of the Indian Ocean accelerated bronze disease in circulated pieces.