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10 Rupees Sambuddathva Jayanthi
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Sinhala/Latin |
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| Reverse script | Sinhala/Tamil/Latin |
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The 2011 Sambuddathva Jayanthi issue commemorates the 2,600th anniversary of the Buddha's attainment of enlightenment, a milestone the Sri Lankan government marked with considerable ceremony given the country's Theravada Buddhist majority. Sri Lanka's claim to an unbroken lineage of Theravada practice — traced to the missionary journey of Mahinda, son of Ashoka, in the 3rd century BCE — lent the anniversary particular national significance beyond the purely religious.
Nickel plated steel rather than cupronickel, a cost-driven substitution the Central Bank had been phasing into circulation coinage since the mid-2000s.