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5 Rupees Central Bank of Ceylon
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Size | 117 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple-grey with ochre rainbow underprint. The central vignette presents a Ceylon blue oakleaf butterfly (Kallima philarchus) above and a blotch bow-finger gecko (Gymnodactylus yakhuna) below, set against a scrub jungle background. Denominations and bank name appear in Sinhala, Tamil, and English, with dual signature lines for the Finance Minister and the Governor of the Central Bank. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1979 date on this note sits awkwardly against the Bradbury, Wilkinson printing date of 30 April 1945 — a gap explained by Ceylon's practice of holding substantial stocks of pre-printed notes and issuing them years after production, a habit inherited from colonial-era currency management. Bradbury, Wilkinson printed for numerous British colonial and Commonwealth territories out of their New Malden works, and Ceylon was a long-standing client.
Ronnie de Mel served as Minister of Finance under J.R. Jayewardene's UNP government, making his signature here a marker of the post-1977 liberalization period. Warnasena Rasaputram was Governor of the Central Bank at the time.