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1500 Rupees Flycatcher
| Issuer | Seychelles |
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| Year | 1978 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES FINIS·CORONAT·OPVS · 1978 · |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark Seychelles' second anniversary of independence, this 1,500-rupee piece belongs to a short wildlife series timed to the 1978 FAO conference and produced in limited numbers for the collector market. The Seychelles paradise flycatcher — endemic to La Digue island and already critically endangered by the late 1970s — was chosen deliberately as a conservation signal at a moment when the newly independent government was positioning itself internationally on environmental issues.
Struck by the Royal Mint, the series saw minimal secondary-market circulation almost immediately upon release.