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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF Seychelles LABANK SANTRAL SESEL DIS ROUPI TEN RUPEES 10 |
| Reverse description | The right half of the note carries a large intaglio vignette of a Hawksbill turtle in blue-grey tones, while the central field shows two white Fairy terns perched on a branch rendered as a pale underprint. To the left, a Coco-de-Mer palm nut and cowry shells are depicted in warm ochre tones against a guilloche underprint, with a circular Hawksbill turtle watermark device visible near the left edge. The denomination appears in the lower left corner and the numeral 10 in the upper right, with the issuing authority name across the top in bilingual English and Creole. |
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The Central Bank of Seychelles has been issuing polymer notes for most denominations since the early 2000s, making this cotton paper 10 Rupees something of an outlier in the post-2010 series. De La Rue's retention of traditional substrate here likely reflects a cost and volume calculation rather than any technical limitation — the 10 Rupee note circulates heavily and wears accordingly, which has led to complaints about note longevity at this denomination specifically.
The watermark remains the primary security feature, modest by contemporary standards for a De La Rue production of this period.