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1 Rupee
| Issuer | Government of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1943-1951 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE RUPEE ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF SEYCHELLES THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT GOVERNOR |
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| Signature(s) | 1943 - Selwyn Grier 1951 - Frederick Crawford |
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The Government of Seychelles issued these notes under wartime emergency conditions — the colonial administration was printing small-denomination currency through De La Rue in London at a time when shipping anything to the Indian Ocean was genuinely hazardous. The series ran long enough to capture two different governors' signatures, Selwyn Grier signing from 1943 and Frederick Crawford from 1951, making signature attribution the primary variable between specimens.
Crawford's tenure coincided with the early stirrings of constitutional reform across British East Africa, though the note itself predates any serious political reorganization in the islands.