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5 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1969-1971 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | ලංකා මහ බැංකුව CENTRAL BANK OF CEYLON. ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක් ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය රුපියල් පහයි මුදල් ඈමති මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති ஐந்து ரூபாய் FIVE RUPEES (Translation: Central Bank of Ceylon) |
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| Protection description | the lion passant, visible when held to light |
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Bradbury Wilkinson handled Ceylon's banknote printing through most of the postwar independence period, and this series sits in a politically compressed window — Ceylon was navigating significant constitutional turbulence through the late 1960s, with the 1970 election bringing Sirimavo Bandaranaike back to power and setting the country on a path toward the republican transition that would produce the rupee-denominated notes of Sri Lanka by 1972. This issue was effectively among the last to carry the Ceylon designation before that rupture.
The P#73 series is relatively short-lived by circulation standards, making mid-grade survivors more collectible than the face value suggests.