The Central Bank of Seychelles has issued relatively few distinct note types across its history, and the series to which this note belongs represented a significant redesign effort from the earlier Victoria Harbour imagery that dominated Seychellois currency for decades. Thomas De La Rue has held the printing contract for Seychelles through multiple reissues, making continuity of security specification straightforward but also meaning successive series are sometimes difficult to distinguish without checking serial prefix ranges.
Pick 43 carries only watermark and security thread as listed features — modest by post-2000 standards for a De La Rue production, where foil patches and color-shifting ink had become routine on comparable denominations for other island issuers by this point.
The Central Bank of Seychelles has issued relatively few distinct note types across its history, and the series to which this note belongs represented a significant redesign effort from the earlier Victoria Harbour imagery that dominated Seychellois currency for decades. Thomas De La Rue has held the printing contract for Seychelles through multiple reissues, making continuity of security specification straightforward but also meaning successive series are sometimes difficult to distinguish without checking serial prefix ranges.
Pick 43 carries only watermark and security thread as listed features — modest by post-2000 standards for a De La Rue production, where foil patches and color-shifting ink had become routine on comparable denominations for other island issuers by this point.