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10 Rupees Oriental Bank Corporation

Features

Issuer Sri LankaCeylon (1597-1972)
Issuing bank Oriental Bank Corporation
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Banknotes
Year 1881
Value 10 Rupees
Currency Rupee (1871-1972)
Composition Paper
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
571311
References P# S142A
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Black print; 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:
10
COLOMBO
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER
රුපියල් දහයයි பத்துரூபாய்
Promise to pay the Bearer on
demand at their Office here
TEN RUPEES value received.
COLOMBO
By Order of the Court of Directors
ENTD. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER.
CEYLON
BRADBURY WILLKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON

Translation: Ten rupees.

Reverse

Red and blue print.

Woman head at left and right facing each other.

Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil

Lettering:
10
TEN
රුපියල් දහයයි
பத்துரூபாய்

Translation: Ten rupees.

Printer

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

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1881-Jan-01 

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