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100 Rixdollars

100 Rixdollars - obverse

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Features

Location Sri LankaCeylon (1597-1972)
Issuing institution Government of Ceylon
King George III (1796-1820)
Type Banknotes
Year 1809
Value 100 Rixdollars
Currency Rixdollar (1796-1828)
Composition Paper
Size 181 × 110 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 1 September 1830
Number
N#
571440

Obverse

Black print.

Seated Britannia within laurel wreath at upper left.

Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil

Lettering:
පතාග සියයයි
நூறு இறையால
COLOMBO 1st January 1809
The Government of Ceylon promise to pay
to the Bearer on demand the Sum of ONE HUNDRED
Rix Dollars in Copper Money at the Exchange
of Forty Eight Stivers for One Rix Dollar on
presenting this at the General Treasury.
RIX DOLLARS One Hundred
COLOMBO
Extd & Entd.

Translation: One hundred rixdollars.

Printer

Gale & Butler Engravers, London, United Kingdom

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1809-Jan-01 

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