25 Rupees Olympic Games 1996

Seychelles issued this piece ahead of the Atlanta Games under a broader Commonwealth commemorative program that saw dozens of small island nations produce near-identical Olympic silver rounds throughout the mid-1990s — most with negligible domestic circulation and distribution almost entirely through numismatic wholesalers. The Seychelles rupee had no practical role in funding or participating in the Games; the country sent a handful of athletes to Atlanta, none of whom medaled.