1987 - 1990 : Sri Lanka
Historical and Development
10 Rupee note
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka
(CBSL) issued in
for circulation, a 10 Rupee Currency Note in a series of Notes
called Sri Lanka Historical and Development.
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Click on image to see Note Security under Ultra-Violet illumination
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| Image on Front and back are identified
in Sinhala, Thamil and English in increasing Font size printed next to it.
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| Predominant Color |
:Front - Spring Green with purple on left and orange on right of center
:Back - Spring Green with few purple and orange leaves.
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| Size | : 127 x 67 mm
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Front: Landscape
At right is image of the Octagon of Dalada Maligawa with the tooth relic of the Buddha
with caption bottom left of it in
Sinhala
මහනුවර, ශ්රි
දළදා මාලිගාවේ
පත්තිරිප්පුව,
Thamil
கண்டி
ஸ்ரீ தலதா
மாளிகையின்
எண்கோண
மண்டபம்., and
English OCTAGON TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH, KANDY.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 10 at all four corners.
At upper center the value
රුපියල් දහයයි in Sinhala.
பத்து ரூபாய் in Thamil,
and TEN RUPEES in English, at bottom center.
In Top center in Sinhala,
ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව,
இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and Central Bank of Sri Lanka in English
in next two lines with decreasing font size.
Next in even smaller font the Legality Legend in 3 lines
ශ්රී ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ
මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ශ්රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක්
ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය
Two Facsimile signatures above මුදල් ඈමති, and
next මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති.
Below Date 19YY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on lower left of center and upper right.
Braille:Two small squares printed in relief incorporated vertically
on the right hand side border of the note.
Back: Portrait
At center is image of the Gateway and stupa
with caption bottom left of it in
Sinhala
දාගැබ, රජ මහා
විහාරය,
කැළණිය.,
Thamil
தாதுகோபுரம்,
இராஜமகாவிகாரை,
களனி., and
English DAGOBA RAJA MAHA VIHARE, KELANIYA.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 10 at top left and Bottom right.
රුපියල් දහයයි in Sinhala.
பத்து ரூபாய் in Thamil,
and TEN RUPEES in English,
in 3 lines of decreasing font size justified on bottom.
ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව
in Sinhala,
இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil
and CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA in English,
in 3 lines of decreasing font size, centered on top.
At bottom centered just below horizontal decorate in small script
BRADBURY WILKINSON.
Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword
in right paw, outlined darker than paper.
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note.
Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Signature, Date and Serial Numbers, in
Green. On right outlines of large Flag Lion with Sword in raised
right paw with large numeric 10 highlighting design at
center. UV-printing in front of Notes issued with date 1987-01-01
is in Orange, while the later dates 1988-11-21 1989-02-21
and 1990-04-05 are in Green
Back: Highlight of Stupa and leaves in upper right in Greenish Yellow.
Latent image: Within the lotus in the motif at front bottom
center, the Numeric value 10 written with horizontal lines on
vertical line background, as seen on this 1200 dpi scan on
right.
Replacement Notes See details with images for series in
*-Notes
| Deno. | Date on
BankNote | Finance Minister | CBSL Governor | First Serial # | Mintage
in K | Repla.
Prefix
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| Rs.10 | 1987-01-01 | Ronnie de Mel | Warnasena Rasaputram | F/1 000001 | 60,000 | R/1
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| Rs.10 | 1988-11-21 | M.H.M.Nainamarikkar | H.N.S.Karunatillake | F/61 000001 | 10,000 | R/1
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| Rs.10 | 1989-02-21 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | F/71 000001 | 33,000 | R/1
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| Rs.10 | 1989-02-21 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | F/104 000001 | 17,000 | (R/1) DKS
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| Rs.10 | 1990-04-05 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | F/121 000001 | 64,000 | R/1
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| Minister of Finance |
Governor
Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
1987-01-01
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| Ronnie de Mel | Warnasena Rasaputram |
1988-02-01
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| M.H.M.Nainamarikkar | Warnasena Rasaputram |
1988-11-21
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| M.H.M.Nainamarikkar | H.N.S.Karunatillake |
1989-02-21
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1989-02-21 1990-04-05
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| D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake |
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| Click to See F/103 without Dot |
The notes dated 1989-02-21 had 2 orders. The First for all the
Denominations except Rs 100 and had a thin Signature for Karunatilake,
and the Second for Denominations Rs 10, Rs 50 and Rs 100. with a
normal Signature with a dot after (DKS). This Rs 10 and the Rs 50
have both varieties of Signature for the date 1989-02-21.
The range of Serial numbers is for the two orders as given in a listing
I obtained from CBSL, and identified First with thin signature and second
with thick. However I have a thin signature note with seriel F/98 so the
change probably happened midway in second order, guessed now as F/104 based
on a F/103 note without Dot and a F/104 with dot shown on right.
I thank Oleg Pozdnyak of Russia for this correction with images as evidence.
The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.