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10 Cents
| Issuer | Government of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON / THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING FIVE RUPEES / TEN CENTS / COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY / 14TH JULY 1942 |
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| Variants | P#43a - 01.02.1942 & 14.07.1942 P#43b - 23.12.1943 |
| Comments |
Ceylon's small-denomination currency notes of this period exist because Japanese forces had swept through Southeast Asia and the threat of invasion made coin metal suddenly strategic. The British colonial administration withdrew silver coinage from circulation — partly to deny it to a potential occupier, partly for the war effort — and paper substitutes filled the gap. These fractional notes were an emergency measure, never intended as permanent instruments.
The printer reference to SPMCI is an anachronism in the data: that corporation did not exist under that name until decades after 1943. The notes were printed under wartime arrangements quite different from any modern Indian security printing infrastructure.