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100 Rupees Central Bank of Ceylon
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1974-1975 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike at right, shown in three-quarter view wearing a national dress, set against fine guilloche underprint in lilac and green tones. The denomination is rendered in Sinhala script at centre, with the date and two facsimile signatures below; corner numerals '100' appear at all four corners within ornate scroll borders. Inscriptions in Sinhala, Tamil, and English run across the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series during a period of acute political turbulence in Sri Lanka — the country had formally become a republic in 1972, dropped "Ceylon" from most official usage, yet the Central Bank retained the old name on its notes until 1979. That lag was deliberate, a conservative institutional choice to avoid disrupting public confidence in circulating currency during a period of constitutional upheaval.
P#80A is the earlier signature variety within the 1974–75 run. Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was responsible for a substantial share of Commonwealth central bank output at this time, and the intaglio work on Ceylon issues from this period is among their cleaner late-career production before the firm was absorbed by De La Rue in 1986.