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2 Rupees Trial
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a large stylized numeral '2' with horizontal line engraving, superimposed by trilingual denomination inscriptions reading 'රුපියල් දෙකයි' in Sinhala, 'இரண்டு ரூபாய்' in Tamil, and 'TWO RUPEES' in Latin script. The country name 'ශ්රී ලංකා' in Sinhala and 'SRI LANKA' in Latin script appear along the upper periphery, with Tamil script legend 'இலங்கை' running along the left. The date '1996' is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Sinhala, Tamil |
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Trial pieces from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka rarely surface in Western auction records, and this example sits in a poorly documented corner of South Asian numismatics. Sri Lanka's 1996 coinage program followed a broader rationalisation of the rupee series undertaken through the early 1990s, though trial and pattern pieces from this process were never formally catalogued by the issuing authority in any publicly available format.
The copper-nickel specification here mirrors the circulating 1992–1994 production runs, suggesting this trial was testing die geometry or planchet tolerances rather than alloy composition.