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10 Cents Ragama store
| Issuer | Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Value | 10 Cents Ragama store |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on yellow underprint with a palm-tree guilloche pattern. The British Royal coat of arms appears at upper centre, with a circular company vignette at left bearing the belt-and-buckle motif inscribed "Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd." enclosing the value "10 cts.". Series letter and serial number at lower left; two manuscript signatures at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | RAGAMA, COLOMBO CEYLON AUGUST 1ST, 1901. TEN CENTS. Good for supplies to Prisoners-of-War only at the Company's Store, RAGAMA CEYLON ICE & COLD STORAGE Co. Ltd. Value 10 cts. Agents & Secretaries. Manager Series B. |
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Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. operated one of the island's earliest mechanized cold storage facilities, supplying ice to Colombo's hotels, hospitals, and the colonial administration. Company-issued store tokens and fractional paper notes of this kind circulated as internal currency among workers and at company stores — a common practice on Ceylon plantations and industrial concerns in the late colonial period, where small-denomination coinage was chronically scarce.
The Ragama facility designation is specific enough to suggest this note was tied to a single site's store account system rather than the company's broader operations.