Catalog
10 Rupees
| Issuer | Government of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Reference(s) | P#9 |
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| Obverse lettering | TEN RUPEES ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF SEYCHELLES THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT GOVERNOR |
| Reverse description | The reverse is uniface, bearing no printed design of its own; only faint ghost impressions of the obverse guilloche underprint, border pattern, and central vignette bleed through from the recto in mirror image. |
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Wartime austerity printing. The Government of Seychelles — rather than a central bank — remained the direct issuing authority throughout this period, a colonial administrative arrangement that persisted well into the postwar decades. De La Rue's London presses produced these notes even as the city was absorbing Luftwaffe bombing campaigns; production continuity for colonial currency was treated as an operational priority by the British authorities.
B. Morgans served as Governor during a period when the islands functioned as a minor Indian Ocean staging point. Pick 9 is among the scarcer wartime Seychelles issues — low print runs and tropical storage conditions have taken their toll on surviving stock.