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10 Rupees Central Bank of Ceylon
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1982-1985 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி CENTRAL BANK OF CEYLON. ශ්රී ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ශ්රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක් ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය රුපියල් දහයයි මුදල් ඈමති මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති ළදා මලිගා, නුවර. தலதா மாளிகை, கண்டி. TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH, KANDY பத்து ரூபாய் TEN RUPEES |
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| Variants | P#92a - 01.01.1982 P#92b - 01.01.1985 |
| Comments |
Bradbury Wilkinson printed Ceylon's banknotes for decades, but by the time this series appeared, the country had been Sri Lanka for over a decade — yet the Central Bank of Ceylon name persisted on notes well into the 1980s, a deliberate legal and institutional holdover as the bank's formal name was not changed to match the republic's 1972 renaming. The tension between "Ceylon" on the note and "Sri Lanka" on every map was a routine bureaucratic oddity rather than any political statement.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility closed when the firm was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990, making this among the final Sri Lankan issues to come off their presses.