Mahinda Rajapaksa assumed the role of PM & Finance Minister again from
2019 November 25th after his younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa was
elected Executive President of Sri Lanka on 2019 November 17th.
Governor Indrajit Cumaraswamy gave notice of his resignation
effective 2019 December 20th.
Prof. Weligamage Don Lakshman took over as the 15th Govornor of CBSL on
2019-12-24.
(CBSL) will issue, for circulation, currency notes with new signatures, "Development, Prosperity and Sri Lanka Dancers" theme dated 2019-12-24 .
Photo shows Prof. W. D. Lakshman at Desk of Governor of CBSL.
The Notes issued for 2019-12-24 as per Answer to Question of CBSL RTI
078/2021 dated 2021-07-19, which also stated that the Rs500 was not
printed for that date.
The Notes issued for 2020-08-12 as per Answer to Question of CBSL RTI
028/2022 dated 2022-05-13.
In 2020 May in reply to a RTI CBSL said
The CBSL has ordered banknotes with signatures of
Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister/Minister of Finance and
Deshamanya Prof W. D. Lakshman, Governor of the CBSL with the date of 2019-12-24.
| Date | Denomiation | First Serial | Last Serial | Issued 2019 | Increase 2019/21 |
| 2019-12-24 | Rs 20 | W/579 000K | W/611 400K | 30.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs 20 | W/611 400K | W/644 880K | 30.0M | |
| 2019-12-24 | Rs 50 | V/293 500K | V/309 592K | 15.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs 50 | V/309 592K | V/327 817K | 15.5M | |
| 2019-12-24 | Rs 100 | U/724 250K | U/762 050K | 35.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs 100 | U/762 050K | U/826 726K | 60.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs 500 | T/323 280K | V/334 531K | 10.0M | |
| 2019-12-24 | Rs1000 | S/433 000K | S/482 825K | 45.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs1000 | S/482 825K | S/510 006K | 24.6M | |
| 2019-12-24 | Rs5000 | R/192 580K | R/230 692K | 35.0M | |
| 2020-08-12 | Rs5000 | R/230 692K | R/279 778K | 45.6M |
Please Help Track Prefix+Serial when Date on Banknote change. Thanks.
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The CBSL governor has signed in Sinhala as W. D. Lakshman. Most letters of English Alphabet can be written in 1 or 2 Sinhala characters. Only W (ඩබලිවි) requires 4. His full first name Weligamage (වෙලිගමගේ) is written in 5 Sinhala characters. New Sinhala tradition is to use the first character of Sinhala name, however the older generation brought up with a colonial Tradition, continue to use English initials written in Sinhala. i.e. in Singlish.
Reported in Circulation
The Rs5000 of 2019-12-24 on 2020 November 18 by Wasim Sattar
The Rs 100 of 2019-12-24 on 2021 April 29 by Hemal Chandraratne
The Rs 20 of 2019-12-24 on 2021 May 5 by Wasim Sattar
The Rs 50 of 2019-12-24 on 2021 May 19 by Ravi Ratnapala
New Finance Minister Basil Rajapakse appointed on 2021 July 8th
The Rs5000 of 2020-08-12 on 2021 September 4 by Dr Hilmy Sally
CBSL Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal reappointed on 2021 September 15th
The Rs 100 of 2020-08-12 on 2021 December 23 by Harry Gunawardena
The Rs 20 of 2020-08-12 on 2021 December 25 by Dharmaraja
The Rs 50 of 2020-08-12 on 2022 February 5 by Harry Gunawardena
New Finance Minister Ali Sabry appointed on 2022 April 4th
New CBSL Governor P. Nandalal Weerasinghe appointed on 2022 April 7th
The Rs1000 of 2019-12-24 on 2022 April 9 by Priyadharshan
The Rs 500 of 2020-08-12 on 2022 April 11 by Ravi Ratnapala
The Rs1000 of 2020-08-12 on 2022 April 28 by Priyadharshan
The 2020-08-12 dated Rs 5000 note was reported to me on 2021-09-04 by
a close friend Dr Hilmy Sally, who had got it from a BoC Bank ATM.
The signatures are identical to the 2019-12-24 dated note.
It seemed initially that CBSL had broken with a tradition since 1991,
where a new date is adopted only when either of the Signatures changes
or a new design is adopted for the Sri Lanka Currency, like in 1991
and 2010. Even some significant changes like the varnish of the lower
denomination notes Rs20, Rs50 and Rs100 in 2014 didn't have a change
of date. Before 1991 every order got a different date.
CBSL confirmed that the 2021 order used the date 2020-08-12 that Mahinda Rajapakse was sworn in again as Finance Minister after the General Elections held on 2020-08-05.