100 Rupees Central Bank of Ceylon

Bradbury Wilkinson printed the Central Bank of Ceylon's higher denominations through much of the postwar period, and this 1977 issue arrived at an awkward political moment: Ceylon had been renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, yet the Central Bank retained its original title on notes well into the late 1970s, an institutional lag that collectors sometimes mistake for an error. The bank's name change to Central Bank of Sri Lanka did not appear on circulating notes until 1979.

Pick 82 was the last substantive issue under the Ceylon designation before the transition series superseded it.