50 Rupees Galle; Oriental Bank Corporation

Features

Issuer	Sri Lanka › Ceylon (1597-1972)
Issuing bank	Oriental Bank Corporation
Queen	Victoria (1837-1901)
Type	Banknotes
Years	1881-1884
Value	50 Rupees
Currency	Rupee (1871-1972)
Composition	Paper
Size	199 × 124 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 573161
References	P# S153 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Black print; blue and 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:
50
FIFTY
GALLE
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER
රුපියල්පනහයි ஐம்பதுரூபாய்
Promise to pay the Bearer on
demand at their Office here
or at their bank in Colombo
FIFTY RUPEES value received.
GALLE 1st January 1881.
By Order of the Court of Directors
ENTD. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER.
CEYLON
BRADBURY WILLKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON

Translation: Fifty rupees.

Reverse

Red and blue print.

Woman head at left and right facing each other.

Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil

Lettering:
50
FIFTY
රුපියල්පනහයි
ஐம்பதுரூபாய்

Translation: Fifty rupees.

Watermark

Arched ORIENTAL BANK above arched CORPORATION

Printer

Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1881-Jan-01												Not listed in SCWPM.
1884-Jan-01

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