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Seychelles rupee
roupie seychelloise (French)
Image:100RupiiSeszelskich1998.jpg Image:Seychelles 25 cents.JPG
RS 100 25 cents
ISO 4217 Code SCR
User(s) Seychelles
Inflation 4.4%
Source The World Factbook, 2005 est.
Subunit
1/100 cent
Symbol SR or SRe
Coins 1, 5, 10, 25 cents, 1, 5 rupees
Banknotes 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 rupees
Central bank Central Bank of Seychelles
Website www.cbs.sc

The rupee is the currency of the Seychelles, divided into 100 cents. In the local Seychellois Creole (Seselwa) language, it is called the roupi. The international currency code is SCR. The abbreviations SR and SRe are sometimes used<ref>http://www.mfa.gov.sc/seychelles_currency.html</ref> <ref>http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/currency_table.html</ref>.

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[edit] History

The Seychelles rupee was introduced in 1914, replacing, at par, the Mauritian rupee which had circulated in the Seychelles since 1877.

[edit] Coins

  • 1 cent (last minted in 1992)
  • 5 cents
  • 10 cents
  • 25 cents
  • 1 rupee
  • 5 rupees

[edit] Banknotes

  • 10 rupees
  • 25 rupees
  • 50 rupees
  • 100 rupees
  • 500 rupees
Current SCR exchange rates
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[edit] References

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Preceded by:
Mauritian rupee
Reason: became a separate crown colony in 1903
Ratio: at par
Currency of Seychelles
1914
Succeeded by:
Current


Rupees
Current Indian rupee | Indonesian rupiah | Maldivian rufiyaa | Mauritian rupee | Nepalese rupee | Pakistani rupee | Seychelles rupee | Sri Lankan rupee
Defunct Afghan rupee | Bhutanese rupee | Burmese rupee | Danish Indian rupee | (British) East African rupee | French Indian rupee | German East African rupie | Gulf rupee | Hyderabad rupee | Italian Somaliland rupia | Netherlands Indian roepiah | Portuguese Indian rupia | Riau rupiah | Travancore rupee | West New Guinean rupiah | Zanzibari rupee
Fictional Hyrulean rupee
See also History of the rupee

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West Cape Verdean escudo | Euro ( Canary Islands, Madeira) | Gambian dalasi | Ghanaian cedi | Guinean franc | Liberian dollar | Nigerian naira | São Tomé and Príncipe dobra | Sierra Leonean leone | West African CFA franc (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo)
East Comorian franc | Djiboutian franc | Eritrean nakfa | Ethiopian birr | Kenyan shilling | Seychelles rupee | Somali shilling | Somaliland shilling | Tanzanian shilling | Ugandan shilling
South Botswana pula | Euro (Mayotte, Réunion) | Lesotho loti | Malawian kwacha | Malagasy ariary | Mauritian rupee | Mozambican metical | Namibian dollar | Saint Helena pound | South African rand | Swazi lilangeni | Zambian kwacha | Zimbabwean dollar

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