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20 Rupees Central Bank of Sri Lanka 70th Anniversary
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central view of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka headquarters building rendered in fine relief, depicted as a modern multi-storey structure occupying the centre of the field. A circular legend surrounds the design, reading in Sinhala and Tamil scripts along the left and lower-left arc, with the Latin legend CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA along the right arc. Below the building, the large numeral 70 appears prominently in the lower field, with the anniversary date range 1950-2020 inscribed beneath it. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 20 dominates the central field, rendered with horizontal line shading for decorative effect. A circular legend along the upper arc reads in Sinhala script on the left and SRI LANKA in Latin on the right, with the Tamil legend for Sri Lanka continuing along the lower-left periphery. Below the central numeral, three lines of text appear in Sinhala, Tamil, and Latin respectively, reading TWENTY RUPEES, followed by the date 2020 in the lower field. A dashed inner border frames the entire design. |
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka was established in 1950 under the Monetary Law Act, making this 2020 issue a commemoration of its seventieth year of operation. The bank opened just two years after Ceylon's independence from Britain, taking over monetary functions previously held by the Currency Board — a colonial mechanism that had tied the rupee directly to sterling reserves with no domestic policy discretion whatsoever.
KM#226a distinguishes this from the base steel version struck in the same year, the aluminium bronze composition reserved for the commemorative issue.