Evidence coverage: 1876–1947. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
A government loan to Mauritius Commercial Bank was recorded at one million rupees; repayment produced20,493rupees interest.
Sources and qualifications →Retain later territorial/national rupee identity; earliest colonial note and coin evidence does not by itself date independent account denomination. Do not merge entire later currency into INR because early circulating standard was Indian rupee.
Sources and qualifications →Seychelles developed its local rupee accounting from the inherited Mauritian rupee system: local issue began1914, sterling-based rules replaced earlier redemption rules in1936, and Mauritian instruments largely ceased locally in1947. Regional differentiation is supported by inherited unit, legal evolution and actual rupee deposit accounts. Neither issuer change alone nor identical exchange parity supplies the edge.
Sources and qualifications →Mauritius adopted the Indian rupee at par effective1January1877, replacing its earlier dollar at two rupees per dollar; local rupee accounting later separated its anchor from India in1934. Account adoption, local loan accounts and later independent valuation establish regional descent, not a metal-standard resemblance.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
A government loan to Mauritius Commercial Bank was recorded at one million rupees; repayment produced20,493rupees interest.
C1490Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
An Order in Council made the rupee the sole legal tender in Mauritius from 1876, according to the issuer's museum history.
C522Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0408. Account adoption, local loan accounts and later independent valuation establish regional descent, not a metal-standard resemblance. Current evidence: Mauritius adopted the Indian rupee at par effective1January1877, replacing its earlier dollar at two rupees per dollar; local rupee accounting later separated its anchor from India in 1934.
C990Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
An Order in Council made the rupee the sole legal tender in Mauritius from 1876, according to the issuer's museum history.
Mauritian Banking landscape, Order in Council sentence
Mauritius combined local currency-board notes with the Indian rupee as its prescribed monetary unit. The history supports unit descent; precise changeover terms and early local-note denominations remain expandable.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0408. Account adoption, local loan accounts and later independent valuation establish regional descent, not a metal-standard resemblance. Replacement evidence: C1610.
Page 124, Board of Currency Commissioners: Indian rupee legal tender 1876–1934; local note issues
Seychelles developed a separate local rupee issue from its Mauritian-rupee circulation; most Mauritian currency lost tender status in 1947. This gradual territorial separation is qualified.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V22-035. Regional differentiation is supported by inherited unit, legal evolution and actual rupee deposit accounts. Neither issuer change alone nor identical exchange parity supplies the edge. Replacement evidence: C1607.
Printed pp.2–4: Mauritian currency, 1914 local issue, 1947 withdrawal
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
A government loan to Mauritius Commercial Bank was recorded at one million rupees; repayment produced20,493rupees interest.
Printed pp.177–178, citing Mauritius annual report1908 p.46
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
Retain later territorial/national rupee identity; earliest colonial note and coin evidence does not by itself date independent account denomination. Do not merge entire later currency into INR because early circulating standard was Indian rupee.
China customs-gold discussion, printed p.40 footnote 38; Ceylon and Mauritius country sections (Mauritius printed p.79)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Seychelles developed its local rupee accounting from the inherited Mauritian rupee system: local issue began1914, sterling-based rules replaced earlier redemption rules in 1936, and Mauritian instruments largely ceased locally in 1947.
Printed pp.2–4 and5–6
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mauritius adopted the Indian rupee at par effective1January1877, replacing its earlier dollar at two rupees per dollar; local rupee accounting later separated its anchor from India in 1934.
Printed pp.174–175 and178
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
Mauritius replaced its local dollar reckoning with rupees effective1January1877 at two rupees per dollar.
Printed p.175
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.