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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1956-1959 |
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| Value | 50 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Blue and violet on multicolour guilloche underprint. The State Emblem of Ceylon — a lion passant within a circular border — is positioned to the left as the principal vignette, with Sinhala and Tamil script legends and the bank title in Sinhala at the top. The denomination in Sinhala script occupies the central panel, flanked by ornate intaglio border work, with two manuscript signatures of bank officials and the issue date below the central text. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue with an olive-toned underprint, the reverse centres on an intaglio vignette of the ornate Moonstone and stairway of an ancient Sinhalese temple, rendered in fine engraved detail with a carved stone frieze in the foreground. A large plain watermark circle is positioned to the left, surrounded by a guilloche border, with Sinhala script and Tamil script legends above and below. The denomination "FIFTY RUPEES" appears in English at the lower left, and the printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Variants | P#60a - 30.07.1956 & 09.4.1958 & 07.11.1958 P#60b - 11.09.1959 |
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