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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation, Haldamulle |
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| Year | 1870-1880 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1837-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | TEN RUPEES INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. HALDAMULLE, CEYLON THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION Promise to pay the Bearer on demand at their Branch here or at their Bank in Colombo TEN RUPEES Value received. By order of the Court of Directors, |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink and displays an elaborate lathe-work guilloche composition centred on one large circular rosette medallion flanked by two smaller matching rosettes, all executed in fine engine-turned geometric patterns. A delicate guilloche frame runs the full perimeter of the note. The overall design is purely ornamental, with no textual inscriptions, relying entirely on the intricacy of the lathe-work underprint for its security effect. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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