Catalog
50 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The Victoria clock tower is rendered at left, with a yellowfin tuna as the central vignette amid geometric guilloche patterning in multicolour tones. A white-throated rail occupies the right portion of the design, while cowry shells appear as decorative elements at upper left, all framed within fine lathe-work borders. |
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| Protection description | Sea turtle watermark visible when held to light |
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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.