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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Government of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1941-1946 |
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| Printer | India Security Press, Nashik, India (1925-2006) |
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| Obverse description | Blue on lilac and olive underprint. A portrait of King George VI occupies the left side, with a watermark panel to the right; the denomination TEN RUPEES appears in a central guilloche band, with the numeral 10 printed at a slant in the upper corners. An arc of text reading GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON spans the upper portion above the legal tender clause, while the date and two facsimile signatures appear above the COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY inscription; the Sinhala value රුපියල් දහයයි is placed at the upper left and the Tamil value பத்து ரூபாய் at the lower right, with serial numbers at the lower left and upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH 10 RUPEES රුපියල් දහයයි பத்து ரூபாய் |
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Ceylon's wartime rupee series was produced at Nashik rather than through the usual British colonial printing channels because German U-boat activity in the Atlantic made shipment of finished notes from London genuinely hazardous. The India Security Press had already been supplying currency to British India, making it a practical wartime fallback for several dependent territories.
The P#36A issue spans a five-year window, so date variants within the type matter to specialists. Notes dated 1941 and those from the final years of the run can differ subtly in ink saturation due to wartime paper and ink supply interruptions at Nashik.