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| 背面描述 | Central denomination cartouche inscribed 'ONE RUPEE' in two lines, enclosed within an ornate scrollwork frame with foliate volutes and acanthus-style flourishes, the design attributed to engraver George Kruger Gray. The territory name 'SEYCHELLES' arcs across the upper field, while the date '1939' is positioned along the lower periphery beneath the cartouche. The entire design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| 边缘 | Reeded |
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The 1939 date places this issue at the very start of World War II, when silver coinage across British colonial territories was already under pressure from wartime metal demands. Seychelles, administered from Mahé as a Crown Colony, had a circulation base of only a few thousand residents — mintages for these issues were correspondingly small, and attrition through loss in the island environment was high.
The .500 fineness reflects Britain's broader interwar reduction of silver content in colonial coinage, a policy that had been rolling through the empire since the early 1920s.