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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1914-date) |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette of orchid blossoms and tropical foliage occupies the face, with an angelfish vignette at lower left set against a fine guilloche underprint in green and brown tones. The national arms appear at upper left, flanked by bilingual bank title inscriptions in English and Creole, while the numeral 50 is repeated at upper right within a latticework border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1998 series marked a significant redesign for Seychellois currency, with Thomas De La Rue producing notes for the Central Bank that replaced the earlier post-independence issues. De La Rue had printed Seychelles notes going back to the colonial period under various issuing authorities, making this a long-standing commercial relationship rather than a new contract.
Security on this note is limited to a watermark — no security thread, no foil element. Modest by late-1990s standards, when most comparable island-economy central banks were already specifying threaded paper.