10 Rupees Independence

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.