1991 - 2006 : 1000 Rupee note
Sri Lanka Heritage
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka
(CBSL) issued
for circulation, 1000 Rupee Currency Notes in a series
of notes that started in 1991 on theme Sri Lanka Heritage.
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Click on image to see Note Security under Ultra-Violet illumination
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| Predominant Color |
:Front - Green with bit of brown, purple and Yellow in background design
:Back - Green with bit of brown, red and purple on peacock
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| Size | : 157 x 78.5 mm
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Front: Landscape
Decorated Maligawa tusker Raja with Mahout on right, Moonstone above
decorate in lower center with smaller caparisoned elephant with casket
on left with floral design above with eight petal flower shape
rectangle on left. Carved panel with standing Gaja Sinha facing right
on bottom left.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 1000 at upper
two and lower right corners.
At upper center the value
රුපියල් දාහයි in Sinhala.
ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் in Thamil
and ONE THOUSAND RUPEES in English, in Two vertical lines at
lower left border.
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 thr 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 YYYY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on upper left and bottom right.
Braille:None on ths series.
Back: Portrait
Octogan of the Temple of the tooth relic in background with, two
Peacocks at Bottom. On upper panel Divided Lotus flower eight petal
flower shape rectangle top left of center of lower panel.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 1000 at top left and Bottom right.
රුපියල් දාහයි in Sinhala, upper right.
ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் in Thamil
and ONE THOUSAND RUPEES in English.
in 2 lines of decreasing font size left 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
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
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| 1991-1992 | 1995-2006
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Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword
in right paw, outlined darker than paper. 2006-07-03 CornerStones
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note.
2001-12-12 : A 4mm Starwide Cleartext Thread with a curved line monogram along security strip.
2006-07-03 : A 4mm Starchrome Thread with RS 1000 SRI LANKA and Mirror of same
interspaced with butterfly motif along security strip.
Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Serial Numbers in Green. A rectangular
highlight large numeric 1000 upper left of center, a band on right and on
left omitting watermark panel. After 1995
with additional UV printing of blanked decorate below in Greenish
Yellow. Back: Highlight band across lower of center over peacocks.
Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center,
the Numeric value 1000 written with diagonal lines tilted left on
a background of diagonal lines tilted right, as seen on this
1200 dpi scan on right.
Advanced Latent image on the 1995-2006 notes not clearly visible in scan.
Click to see it highlighted by image processing.
You can also see Latent image with a bright light illuminating the
note tilted at a particular angle.
Replacement Notes See details with images for series in
*-Notes
| Deno. | Date on
BankNote | Finance Minister | CBSL Governor | Fi
rst Serial # | Mintage
in K | Repla.
Prefix
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| Rs.1000 | 1991-01-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | G/1 000001 | 4,000 | (Z/6)
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| Rs.1000 | 1992-07-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.B.Disanayaka | G/5 000001 | 26,000 | Z/6
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| Blanked Emblem
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| Rs.1000 | 1995-11-15 | C.B.Kumaratunga | A.S.Jayawardena | G/31 000001 | 75,000 | Z/6
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| Wide Security - Curves
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| Rs.1000 | 2001-12-12 | K.N. Choksy | A.S.Jayawardena | G/106 000001 | 25,000 | Z/6
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| Rs.1000 | 2004-04-10 | Sarath Amunugama | A.S.Jayawardena | G/131 000001 | 25,000 | Z/6
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| Rs.1000 | 2004-07-01 | Sarath Amunugama | Sunil Mendis | G/156 000001 | 30,065 | Z/6
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| Wide Security - Text
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| Rs.1000 | 2006-07-03 | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Ajith Nivard Cabral | G/186 65001 | 60,000 | Z/6
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The Elephant
Raja
was born in the jungles of Eravur in Batticaloa District about 1913.
He was captured along with few other elephants by a group of men
headed by a Muslim man named Umaru Lebbe Panikkar in November 1925,
who became its Mahout (Trainer) and appears with the Tusker on the
1991 Rs 1000 currency note. Raja carried the sacred casket at the
annual perahera in Kandy from 1950 to 1987 and
died in July 1988.
See 2004 February
Story
on lankaweb.
In 1988 I was doing research at DAO in Victoria, Canada at the time
and remember reading a headline in the "National Enquirer" saying
"Sacred Elephant dies gets Stuffed".
Assumed it to be typical Tabloid Fake News.
Raja's stuffed remains are presently in a special
museum
within the grounds of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.
For collected details of the images on this Banknote see
NotesCollector.
The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.
