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10 Rupees Ratnapura
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '10' dominates the central field, with the denomination 'TEN RUPEES' inscribed below in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The country name 'SRI LANKA' appears along the upper arc in Sinhala, with the Tamil rendering to the left and the English rendering to the right. The date is positioned in the lower field, flanked on each side by stalks of rice curving upward in a symmetrical arrangement. A repeating geometric pattern is engraved around the inner border, echoing the decorative style of the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ratnapura — "City of Gems" in Sinhala — has been Sri Lanka's center of sapphire, ruby, and spinel mining since at least the 4th century, and the trade drew Arab, Chinese, and later Portuguese merchants long before European colonial administration formalized the industry. The 2013 commemorative rupee series, of which this piece is part, honored Sri Lanka's historic cities, each assigned its own circulating denomination.
AISI 430 ferritic stainless steel was adopted by the Central Bank partly for its resistance to the island's humid tropical conditions, which had accelerated corrosion in earlier cupro-nickel issues.