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| Issuer | Republic of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark Seychelles independence from Britain on 29 June 1976, this coin was part of the first definitive series struck for the newly sovereign republic. The archipelago had been a British Crown Colony since 1814, ceded by France under the Treaty of Paris following the Napoleonic Wars — a colonial handover that shaped the islands' unusual Franco-British cultural character for over 160 years.
The series was struck at the British Royal Mint.