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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and violet, centred on a large intaglio vignette of a multi-armed Hindu deity standing in an arched niche, accompanied by attendant figures at the base. The denomination '10' appears at each side, with 'TEN RUPEES' and its Tamil equivalent across the top, and the bank title in Sinhala script along the lower margin. The flanking panels carry dense Sinhala and Tamil text within ornamental borders. |
| Reverse lettering | TEN RUPEES பத்து ரூபாய் රුපියල් දාහය ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව |
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Ceylon's central bank had operated with the same basic 10 Rupee format for years before this issue, and Bradbury Wilkinson — longtime security printers to the British colonial and post-colonial world — had been engraving Ceylon's notes since the series began in the late 1950s. The Tennekoon signature dates this to a specific period of governorship that ran through the mid-1960s, placing this note squarely within the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government's second administration.
Pick 64 is distinguished from the closely related P#63 primarily by that signature swap — a detail that trips up collectors who don't track the governor succession carefully.