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25 Rupees Queen Mother
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Republic of Seychelles occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield supported by two marlins rampant, with a tortoise in the base quarter and a sailing vessel in the upper dexter quarter. Below the shield, a scroll bears the Latin motto FINIS·CORONAT·OPUS. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 2000 displayed in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Queen Mother commemorative series issued across Commonwealth nations in 2000 marked her centenary year, with Seychelles among dozens of smaller territories that contracted the Royal Mint or private minting houses to produce largely identical planchets under local authority. These multi-nation issues were coordinated commercial ventures as much as sovereign commemoratives, with the same basic specifications appearing across Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean issuers simultaneously.
Seychelles gained independence from Britain in 1976, making the continued use of British royal figures on its coinage a deliberate choice rather than a colonial inheritance.