Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Cents - Elizabeth II FAO
| Issuer | Seychelles |
|---|---|
| Year | 1972-1975 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 5 Cents (0.05 SCR) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A highly detailed, naturalistic top-down view of a cabbage head dominates the central field, its tightly layered, textured leaves rendered in fine relief. The denomination legend FIVE CENTS arcs across the upper portion of the field in raised Latin capitals, flanked by raised dots. The FAO slogan GROW MORE FOOD curves along the lower field in matching raised capitals, also flanked by raised dots, referencing the Food and Agriculture Organisation programme that inspired the issue. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued under the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) coinage program, which encouraged member nations to mint coins promoting agricultural self-sufficiency and rural development. The Seychelles was still a British crown colony for the first years of this issue — independence didn't come until June 1976 — so these pieces circulate across a political transition, struck under one sovereign arrangement and spent under another.