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1/2 Rupee - George VI
| Issuer | Seychelles |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King George VI facing left, wearing the St. Edward's Crown, modelled by Percy Metcalfe. The legend GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR curves along the upper and lower periphery in raised Latin characters. The field is plain, and the design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Seychelles half rupee was struck at the Royal Mint in a year when wartime pressures were already beginning to distort colonial silver supplies across the Empire. The .500 fineness — half silver, half base metal — reflects the interwar degradation of subsidiary coinage that had been creeping through British colonial issues since the early 1920s. Production for Seychelles was always in small quantities; the archipelago's tiny population meant mintages that leave genuine gaps in surviving examples today.