Posted 02/22/2010 8:19 pm
The coins certainly circulated, but the Seychelles is a very small country, with a tiny population. Even today, the population is only 84,000, 90% of whom live on the large main island of Mahe with the rest scattered across dozens of islands. As such, there is virtually no native collector base; any "demand" would come from overseas collectors of foreign coins - particularly OFEC and British Empire/Commonwealth collectors. Such people rarely try to collect every single date/mintmark of every single denomination, so there are very few people trying to "collect the whole set" of Seychelles coins. Low demand = low price.
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