1991 - 2006 : 10 Rupee note
Sri Lanka Heritage

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued for circulation, 10 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
Predominant
Color		 :Front - Green with purple on left and orange on right of center
:Back - Green with purple decorate and Yellow flowers.
Size: 122 x 61 mm
Front: Landscape
Yapahuwa Stone sculpture of seated Lion facing left with head down mouth open on right, Top view of Lotus on bottom left, Moonstone above decorate in lower center with Makara Thorana above with lotus bud on side.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 10 at upper two and lower right corners. At upper center the value රුපියල් දහයයි in Sinhala. பத்து ரூபாய் in Thamil, and TEN 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 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 YYYY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on upper left and bottom right.
Braille: None on ths series
Back: Portrait
In middle Presidential Secretariat building, Colombo which was used Legislative Council of Ceylon from 1930 House of Representatives from 1948 to 1982. Bunch of Flowers with leaves below, Upper Panel, Stork facing left on upper right. Divided Tea leaves with Lotus bud top left of center between panels.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 10 at top left and Bottom right. රුපියල් දහයයි in Sinhala upper right. பத்து ரூபாய் in Thamil, and TEN 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 left just below horizontal decorate in small script
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
1991-19921994-2006
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 10 excluded, From 1991 to 1994, lower left of center,and from 1995 to 2006 upper right of center with additional elaborate UV printing of Moonstone, and blanked decorate below all in Greenish Yellow.
Back: Highlight of flowers at bottom in Greenish Yellow.
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Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center, the Numeric value 10 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 MinisterCBSL GovernorFirst Serial #Mintage
in K		Repla.
Prefix
Rs.10 1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake M/1 000001 16,190Z/1
Rs.10 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka M/17 190001 61,000Z/1
Rs.10 1994-08-19 C.B.Kumaratunga H.B.Disanayaka M/78 190001 69,000Z/1
Blanked Emblem
Rs.10 1995-11-15 C.B.Kumaratunga A.S.Jayawardena M/147 190001 120,000Z/1
Rs.10 2001-12-12 K.N. Choksy A.S.Jayawardena M/267 190001 80,000Z/1
Rs.10 2004-04-10 Sarath Amunugama A.S.Jayawardena M/347 190001 40,000Z/1
Rs.10 2004-07-01 Sarath Amunugama Sunil Mendis M/387 190001 75,325Z/1
Rs.10 2005-11-19 Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunil Mendis M/462 515001 90,000Z/1
Rs.10 2006-07-03 Mahinda Rajapaksa Ajith Nivard Cabral M/552 515001 30,000Z/1

The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.