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2 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1962-1965 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan note with an intaglio portrait of Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike at right, rendered in three-quarter view. The Central Bank of Ceylon title is inscribed in Sinhala script at top centre, with the denomination expressed in Sinhala and Tamil scripts centrally, and 'TWO RUPEES' in Roman lettering at lower left and lower right. A central guilloche rosette underprint frames the date and dual-signature panel, with an ornate floral border running the full perimeter. |
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| Obverse lettering | ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව රුපියල් දෙකයි TWO RUPEES இரண்டு ரூபாய் |
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Ceylon's Central Bank was established only in 1950, and the Pick 62 series reflects the institution's early effort to build a distinctive national currency identity after independence — Bradbury Wilkinson had been a reliable partner for British colonial and Commonwealth note production, and their New Malden facility produced work for dozens of newly sovereign states in this period. The two signature combinations across the series' short run document a specific change in the Governor's chair: N.U. Jayawardena, the bank's founding governor, had been replaced by U.B. Wanninayake by 1965, while H. Tennekoon continued as the countersigning officer throughout.