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10 Rupees Galle
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central view of the Galle Dutch Fort with its distinctive clock tower, framed within a beaded circle. The composition depicts a perspective toward the Cricket Grounds and Bus Stand, capturing the historic colonial fortification in fine detail. The trilingual toponym legend appears around the design, with the Sinhala inscription 'ගාල්ල' at top, the Tamil inscription 'காலி' at left, and the Latin 'Galle' at right. The date '2013' is positioned below the central motif within the circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | காலி ගාල්ල Galle 2013 (Translation: Galle in Sinhala on top, in Tamil on left, in Latin on right) |
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Galle, the fortified port city on Sri Lanka's southwestern coast, was the dominant maritime trading hub in the Indian Ocean for much of the Dutch colonial period. The fort itself — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — was originally built by the Portuguese in 1588 and later massively expanded by the Dutch East India Company after they seized it in 1640. Sri Lanka's regional commemorative circulation series, of which this is a part, was introduced to acknowledge the country's distinct historical and geographical identities rather than issue purely symbolic coinage.
AISI 430 ferritic stainless steel was adopted for the higher-denomination circulating coins partly for its resistance to the humid tropical climate.