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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of Paille-en-queue orchid blooms rendered in deep green against a guilloche underprint, with a blue marlin extending across the right portion of the note. To the left, an angelfish vignette occupies the lower centre against a warm ochre wavy-line underprint, below the bank title inscription and the Seychelles coat of arms at upper left. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large format at lower left in purple, with 'FIFTY RUPEES' in intaglio at lower right, and a turtle watermark medallion and colour-shifting security element at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of the Little Ben clock tower in Victoria set within a detailed architectural composition, accompanied by a yellowfin tuna and the flightless white-throated rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri aldabranus), all rendered with fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche background. Denomination numerals and bank name inscriptions frame the design. |
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The Central Bank of Seychelles has issued relatively few distinct note types across its history, and the series to which this note belongs represented a significant redesign effort from the earlier Victoria Harbour imagery that dominated Seychellois currency for decades. Thomas De La Rue has held the printing contract for Seychelles through multiple reissues, making continuity of security specification straightforward but also meaning successive series are sometimes difficult to distinguish without checking serial prefix ranges.
Pick 43 carries only watermark and security thread as listed features — modest by post-2000 standards for a De La Rue production, where foil patches and color-shifting ink had become routine on comparable denominations for other island issuers by this point.