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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Republic of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees (10 SCR) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in teal intaglio of a traditional stilted fishing hut on a tropical shoreline, with two wooden pirogues drawn up on the beach and large granite boulders flanked by palm trees in the background. Decorative guilloche borders frame the design at left and right in pink and teal, with the denomination numerals "10" at each corner. The inscriptions "Republic of Seychelles" and "Ten Rupees" appear at top centre and lower centre respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | Republic of Seychelles Ten Rupees 10 |
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Seychelles gained independence from Britain on 29 June 1976, and this note belongs to the first issue released under the newly constituted Republic — a deliberate break from the colonial Currency Board series that had governed the territory's paper money since 1914. Bradbury Wilkinson handled the printing, as they did for a substantial portion of Britain's departing colonial territories during the 1970s decolonization wave.
The series was short-lived. A coup in June 1977 brought France-Albert René to power, and a redesigned issue followed within a few years, making the 1976 independence notes a genuinely brief chapter in the currency record.