10 Rupees

The Government of Seychelles issued paper currency directly — not through a central or commercial bank — because the islands had no such institution at the time. This note predates the Seychelles Currency Board by decades. The 1914 date places it squarely in the first months of the First World War, when disruptions to normal trade and coinage supply made locally issued paper obligations a practical necessity across many British colonial territories simultaneously.

The embossed seal is the sole security measure, which was not unusual for small colonial issues of this period, though it makes authentication of genuine examples harder now than for notes with more complex printing. P#A4 designation suggests the series remains incompletely catalogued.