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20 Rupees Fifth Anniversary Seychelles Monetary Authority
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Republic of Seychelles occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield supported by a sailfish and a swordfish, surmounted by a white-tailed tropicbird as crest. A scroll at the base of the shield bears the Latin motto FINIS·CORONAT·OPUS (The End Crowns the Work). The legend REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES curves along the upper periphery, while the date 1983 appears at the bottom, flanked by decorative stops. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES FINIS‧CORONAT‧OPUS · 1983 · (Translation: motto ( lat) : The End Crowns the Work) |
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The Seychelles Monetary Authority was established in 1978, the year after independence from Britain, to replace the East African Currency Board arrangement that had governed the islands' money supply as part of a regional system. Its fifth anniversary in 1983 prompted this commemorative issue — one of several from the early independence period as the young nation built the apparatus of a sovereign financial system. The SMA itself was shortly thereafter reconstituted as the Central Bank of Seychelles in 1983, making this coin a marker of an institution already mid-transition at the moment of striking.