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100 Rupees Central Bank of Ceylon
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an orange-brown color scheme with a large circular watermark area at center-left, surrounded by intricate guilloche underprint patterns and floral motifs. To the right, an intaglio vignette presents a carved stone lion statue in the Kandyan artistic tradition, set against architectural detail. The denomination numeral '100' appears at upper right and lower left, with trilingual inscriptions in Sinhala, Tamil, and English across the upper and lower registers, and the date 1982-01-01 printed at lower center. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange-brown tones and centers on a detailed architectural vignette of the Parliament Building at Sri Jayewardhanapura Kotte, rendered in a precise line-engraved style with surrounding landscape and reflecting pool in the foreground. A large circular watermark zone occupies the upper left area, framed by a decorative guilloche border in green and gold. Trilingual inscriptions in Sinhala, Tamil, and English identify the building and issuing authority across the upper and lower margins. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed Ceylon notes for decades, but by 1982 the political pressure to reorient toward domestic printing was building — Sri Lanka would eventually shift production to the Sri Lanka Security Printing Corporation, making late BW issues like this one transitional pieces in the country's printing history. The country had already changed its official name to Sri Lanka in 1972, yet the Central Bank retained the Ceylon designation until 1988, a bureaucratic lag that gives notes from this window an odd anachronistic quality.
P#95 runs from 1979 through to the final BW printings, with signature combinations being the key variable for dating within the series.