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1 Rupee Army's 50th Anniversary
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a uniformed Sri Lankan Army soldier wearing a steel helmet and carrying a rifle on his back, shown in three-quarter view embracing a young child; together they cradle a dove, symbolizing peace and the protective role of the armed forces. The legend 'SRI LANKA' arcs along the upper border in Latin script, flanked on the left by the country name in Sinhala and Tamil scripts. To the right of the central group, the denomination appears in three scripts: Sinhala, Tamil, and Latin ('ONE RUPEE'). The date '1999' is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse description | Central device features the emblem of the Sri Lanka Army: the national coat of arms of Sri Lanka surmounting two crossed swords, with a pair of stylised mythical lion figures flanking a scrolled ribbon banner bearing the Sinhala legend for 'Sri Lanka Army'. A dotted inner border frames the design. The legend 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' arcs along the right in Latin script, with the equivalent Sinhala legend arcing along the left; a six-pointed star punctuates each side at the upper register. The commemorative date range '1949-1999' is inscribed prominently along the lower border. |
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Sri Lanka's army was formally constituted on October 10, 1949, making this 1999 issue a golden jubilee commemoration. The Sri Lanka Army had by that point spent the better part of two decades engaged in the civil conflict against the LTTE, and the jubilee fell during one of the bloodiest phases of that war — the years immediately surrounding the catastrophic 1999 Elephant Pass offensive. Issuing a celebratory coin in that climate was a deliberate act of institutional morale-building.