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| Issuer | Government of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1885-1925 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON / Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of / TEN RUPEES / FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON / Commissioners of Currency / Colombo |
| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely plain, with no printed design or lettering, consistent with early British colonial currency issues of this period. |
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| Variants | P#12a - 01.01.1885* (handsigned), 01.01.1894 & 01.09.1894 * not listed in catalog P#12b - 18.05.1908, 01.11.1909 & 20.01.1913 P#12c - 01.04.1914, 01.04.1915, 15.05.1919, 08.12.1919, 01.10.1921, 01.09.1922, 01.09.1923, 01.10.1924, 01.10.1925 (signatures: Clementi & Woods) & 01.10.1925 (signatures: Clementi & Alexander) |
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