5 Rupees Oriental Bank Corporation
Features
| Issuer |
Sri Lanka ›
Ceylon (1597-1972)
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing bank | Oriental Bank Corporation |
| Queen |
Victoria (1837-1901)
|
| Type | Banknotes |
| Year | 1881 |
| Value | 5 Rupees |
| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 571302 |
| References | P# S168 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). |
Obverse
Black print; red underprint.
Allegorical enthroned woman with lions at left. Bust of Mercury holding caduceus at right. British coat of arms at upper centre.
Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil
Lettering:
5
NEWERA ELLIA
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER
රුපියල් පහයි ஐந்து ரூபாய்
Promise to pay the Bearer on
demand at their Office here
FIVE RUPEES value received.
NEWERA ELLIA 1st January 1881.
By Order of the Court of Directors
ENTD. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER.
CEYLON
BRADBURY WILLKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON
Translation: Five rupees.
Reverse
Red and blue print.
Woman head at left and right facing each other.
Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil
Lettering:
5
FIVE
රුපියල් පහයි
ஐந்து ரூபாய்
Translation: Five rupees.
Printer
Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990)See also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| 1881-Jan-01 | |||||||||||||||
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