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Sri Lanka and Ceylon banknotes
Sri Lanka and Ceylon paper money catalog and Sri Lanka and Ceylon currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Dutch currency, till 1802
  • India currency, 1802-1872
  • Ceylon Rupee = (India Rupee) = 100 Cents, 1872-1950
  • Ceylon Rupee = 100 Cents, from 1950

• The Ceylon Rupee was also used in the Maldives Islands.

• To purchase Sri Lanka and Ceylon banknotes, please check our inventory :
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Pick #	Date
		British Colony, till 1948
3-5	18--	1, 2, 5 pounds
7-8	1809-26	2, 5 rix $
11-15	1885-1926	5, 10, 1.000 rupees
16-20	1914-39	1, 2, 50, 100 rupees
21-29	1925-39	2, 5, 5, 10, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 rupees
30-33	1941.02	1, 2, 5, 10 rupees
34-39	1941-49	1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 1.000 rupees
40-41	1942	25, 50 cents
42-45	1942	2x5, 10, 25, 50 cents
47-48	1951	1, 10 rupees
49-53	1952-54	1, 2, 5, 50, 100 rupees
54-55	1953-54	5, 10 rupees
		State, from 1948
56-61	1956-63	1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 rupees
62-66	1962-65	2, 5, 10, 50, 100 rupees
67-71	1965-68	2, 5, 10, 50, 100 rupees
72-76	1969-77	2, 5, 10, 50, 100 rupees
77-78	1970	50, 100 rupees
79-80	1971-74	50, 100 rupees
		Sri Lanka, from 1972
81-82	1962-65	50, 100 rupees
83-88	1979	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 rupees
89-90	1981-85	500, 1.000 rupees
91-95	1982-85	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 rupees
96-101	1987-90	10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 rupees
102-7	1991-94	10, 20, 50, 100, 100, 500, 1.000 rupees
108-13	1995	10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 rupees
114	1998	200 rupees; commemorative issue "independence 1948-1998"
115-21	2001-	10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 2.000 rupees
122	2009	1.000 rupees; commemorative "Peace"
123-28	2010	20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 rupees
129	2013	500 rupees; commemorative "Commonwealth Meeting"
130	2018	1.000 rupees; commemorative "70 Independence Celebration"

		CEYLON PRIVATE BANKS
		- Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (United West India Company)
s11-46	1785-1796	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 rixdollars
		- Asiatic Banking Corporation
s101-5	1865	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds; Colombo Branch
s106-9	1865	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds; Kandy Branch
		- Bank of Ceylon
s111-4	184-	1, 5, 10, 20 pounds
		- Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China, Colombo / Galley / Kandy
s117-29	1867-1873	5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 rupiees
		- Oriental Bank Corporation, Badulla / Colombo / Galley / Jaffna / Kandy / Newera Ellia
s136-61	1869-1884	5, 10, 50, 100 rupiees