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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation, Colombo |
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| Year | 1881-1884 |
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| Value | 50 Rupees |
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| Reverse description | Printed in soft rose and green tones, the reverse is dominated by a central mirror-image vignette of two classical female portrait busts facing each other, rendered within an elaborate guilloche framework of interlacing lathe-work. The denomination numeral 50 appears in each corner within ornate guilloche rosettes, with the Sinhala and Tamil script legends flanking the central vignette at left and right. A SPECIMEN perforation is visible through the centre of the note. |
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| Protection type | Specimen perforation |
| Protection description | SPECIMEN perforated through the centre of the note on both obverse and reverse |
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