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250 Rupees Pope Benedict XVI
| Issuer | Seychelles |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#123, Schön#129 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES PM · 2005 · |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued in the weeks following Joseph Ratzinger's election on April 19, 2005, this piece was part of a wave of commemorative gold struck by small-nation mints capitalizing on the global attention surrounding the papal transition after John Paul II's death. Seychelles had no particular ecclesiastical relationship with the Vatican to justify the issue — the connection is purely commercial, a licensing arrangement common among Pacific and Indian Ocean island states whose minting programs exist almost entirely for the collector market rather than circulation.