1991 - 2006 : 100 Rupee note
Sri Lanka Heritage
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka
(CBSL) issued in
for circulation, 100 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 - Orange with dark brown and Yellow and Pink in background
:Back - Dark Brown with Orange with a bit of yellow and pink
or later
Orange with a bit of yellow, pink and green.
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| Size | : 143 x 71.5 mm
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Front: Landscape
Decorative Pot (Manjusawa) on right, Moonstone above decorate in lower
center with Guard Stone on left with flower design above with bead
loop on left.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 100 at upper two
and lower right corners.
At upper center the value
රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala.
நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil,
and ONE HUNDRED 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 on upper left and bottom right.
Braille: None on ths series.
Back: Portrait
Sigiriya Rock in background with, four women with baskets on their
back picking tea leaves and a pair of parakeets on foliage. On upper
panel Divided flower with leaves. Bead Loop top left of center of
lower panel.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 100 at top left and Bottom right.
රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala upper right.
நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil,
and ONE HUNDRED 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, justified on right on top of lower panel.
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.
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note.
Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Serial Numbers in Green. A rectangular
highlight large numeric 20 upper left of center,and from 1995 to 2006
with additional UV printing of blanked decorate below in
Greenish Yellow.
Back: Highlight of leaves of divided flower and decorative radial of
background sky behind Sigiriya
Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center,
the Numeric value 100 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 | First Serial # | Mintage
in K | Repla.
Prefix
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| Rs.100 | 1991-01-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | J/1 000001 | 1,000 | Z/4
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| Thamil Dot added
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| Rs.100 | 1991-01-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.N.S.Karunatillake | J/2 000001 | 14,000 | Z/4
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| Rs.100 | 1992-07-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.B.Disanayaka | J/16 000001 | 37,000 | Z/4
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| Orange Back - Wide J
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| Rs.100 | 1992-07-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.B.Disanayaka | J/53 000001 | 20,000 | Z/4
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| Normal J
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| Rs.100 | 1992-07-01 | D.B.Wijethunga | H.B.Disanayaka | J/73 000001 | 53,000 | Z/4
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| Blanked Emblem
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| Rs.100 | 1995-11-15 | C.B.Kumaratunga | A.S.Jayawardena | J/126 000001 | 110,000 | Z/4
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| Rs.100 | 2001-12-12 | K.N. Choksy | A.S.Jayawardena | J/236 000001 | 100,000 | Z/4
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| Rs.100 | 2004-07-01 | Sarath Amunugama | Sunil Mendis | J/336 000001 | 55,250 | Z/4
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| Rs.100 | 2005-11-19 | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Sunil Mendis | J/391 250001 | 140,000 | Z/4
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| Rs.100 | 2006-07-03 | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Ajith Nivard Cabral | J/531 25001 | 50,000 | Z/4
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The 1991-01-01 dated Rs 100 note did not have a DOT in the Thamil
Thamil word Rupay which was written in error as
ரூபாய
and was corrected to
ரூபாய்
within the First Million Notes, after the error was noticed. There is
also some low Serial numbers where the Dot seems to have been added by
hand. All the notes in the comparison on left has J/1 Preffix.
The No Dot variety is rare.
The 1992-07-01 dated Rs 100 note has three Varieties.
The Back of Note was changed from a Dark Brown to Orange for the
second order with prefix between J/53 and J/73. The J in the
Prefix was also made wider but was changed back in the third order.
The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.
