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100 Rupees Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother-Wedding 1923
| Issuer | Seychelles |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 7.776 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER WEDDING : LADY ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON : THE DUKE OF YORK 1923 ONE HUNDRED RUPEES |
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Issued to mark the 1923 marriage of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to the Duke of York — the future George VI — this commemorative was produced over seven decades after the event itself, a gap that says more about the late-twentieth-century collector market than about Seychellois monetary history. The .583 fineness is notably lower than the .999 or .9167 gold used in most sovereign commemoratives of the period, keeping the bullion cost accessible while still qualifying as a gold issue.
The Seychelles had no particular connection to the 1923 wedding; the coin belongs to a wave of Commonwealth-adjacent issues produced by small island states licensing royal themes through the Pobjoy Mint and similar contractors.