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5 Cents - Elizabeth II Trial Strike
| Issuer | Ceylon (1597-1972) |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Coat of Arms of Ceylon, depicting a lion passant holding a sword within a stylised sun-rayed roundel, surmounted by a dharma chakra and flanked by petals. A decorative ribbon scroll at the base bears the country name in three scripts — Tamil, Sinhala, and Latin — reading 'CEYLON'. The word 'TRIAL' appears vertically along the right inner edge of the square flan. The overall design is struck on a square flan with rounded corners, with a plain raised rim framing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '5' dominates the central field, rendered in a bold serif style. Above it, within a decorative wreath of stylised foliage encircling the central area, appears the Sinhala legend 'ලංකා'. Below the numeral, the denomination is inscribed in Sinhala script followed by Tamil script and then in Latin letters reading 'FIVE CENTS'. The date '1971' is placed in the lower exergue, beneath the wreath border. |
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Ceylon's transition to decimal coinage in 1963 left nearly a decade of design and composition experimentation in its wake. This aluminium trial strike from 1971 sits just one year before the island's transformation into the Republic of Sri Lanka, a constitutional shift that rendered the entire Ceylon coinage series obsolete almost immediately after pieces like this were being tested.