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5 Rupees Jaffna; Oriental Bank Corporation

Features

Issuer Sri LankaCeylon (1597-1972)
Issuing bank Oriental Bank Corporation
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Banknotes
Year 1881
Value 5 Rupees
Currency Rupee (1871-1972)
Composition Paper
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
573163
References P# S155
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Black print; pink 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:
5
JAFFNA
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER
රුපියල් පහයි ஐந்து ரூபாய்
Promise to pay the Bearer on
demand at their Office here
or at their Bank in Colombo
FIVE RUPEES value received.
JAFFNA 1st January 1881.
By Order of the Court of Directors
ENTD. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER.
CEYLON
BRADBURY WILLKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON

Translation: Five rupees.

Reverse

Red and blue print.

Woman head at left and right facing each other.

Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil

Lettering:
5
FIVE
රුපියල් පහයි
ஐந்து ரூபாய்

Translation: Five 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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