1 Rupee - George VI

The 1938 Mauritius rupee was struck at the Royal Mint during a period when Britain was quietly consolidating colonial currency systems ahead of what everyone in Whitehall knew was coming. Mauritius had used a fragmented mix of local and imported coinage throughout the nineteenth century; the rupee standard, adopted in 1876 to align with India, gave the island a workable monetary link to the broader British Indian Ocean trade network.

George VI's accession in 1936 following Edward VIII's abdication necessitated new dies across the entire colonial series. The 1938 date makes this among the earliest Mauritian rupees bearing his effigy.