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1000 Rupees Central Bank of Sri Lanka
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 1987-1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right portion of the note is dominated by an intaglio vignette of the Victoria Dam, rendered in green with fine architectural detail including the dam wall, surrounding hillside, and reservoir. An arched gateway motif at left frames the central field, which carries the issue date, two manuscript signatures, and trilingual denomination text in Sinhala, Tamil, and English within an ornate guilloche underprint. The issuer's name in all three scripts is printed across the upper border, with the numeral '1000' positioned in the lower left corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி Central Bank of Sri Lanka රුපියල් දාහයි ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் One Thousand Rupees |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this note during the final years of the firm's independent existence — the company was acquired by De La Rue in 1990, the same year this series ended. Notes from the tail end of production share identical specifications with earlier printings, making date-of-printing attribution within the 1987–1990 window essentially impossible without archival records.
The 1000 Rupee denomination was the highest face value in Sri Lankan circulation during a period of sustained inflationary pressure tied in part to the civil conflict that had escalated sharply after 1983. High-denomination notes from this window circulated hard and fast.