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1000 Rupees 70th Independence Celebration
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 1000 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents religious edifices representing Sri Lanka's four principal faiths, with the Grand Sainthamaruthu Mosque among them, set against a decorative underprint. At lower left, four youths appear in a vignette symbolising cultural diversity, while at the right margin the Sri Lankan Hanging Parrot (Loriculus beryllinus) is rendered as a colour vignette alongside the denomination numerals. Issuing authority legends appear in Sinhala, Tamil, and English across the upper register. |
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| Obverse lettering | ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA ශ්රී ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ශ්රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක් ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය රුපියල් දහයි ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் ONE THOUSAND RUPEES (Translation: CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA This banknote issued on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka is legally valid for payment of any amount within Sri Lanka ONE THOUSAND RUPEES) |
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Sri Lanka's independence from Britain was declared on 4 February 1948, making 2018 the seventieth anniversary — an occasion the Central Bank marked with this commemorative issue rather than a routine circulation replacement. Thomas De La Rue has printed Sri Lankan currency continuously across multiple political identities, from Ceylon through to the present republic, an unusually long and unbroken commercial relationship for a single printer.
Pick 130 credits named local designers for both faces, which is comparatively rare in Sri Lankan issues of this period and suggests the Central Bank took deliberate authorial ownership of the anniversary imagery.