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5 Cents Ragama store

5 Cents (Ragama store) - obverse

Obverse © Spink and Son

Features

Location Sri LankaCeylon (1597-1972)
King Edward VII (1901-1910)
Type Confinement vouchers › Internment and prison vouchers
Year 1901
Composition Paper
Size 127 × 83 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
573224

Obverse

Black print; beige underprint.

British coat of arms at upper centre.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RAGAMA, COLOMBO
CEYLON
AUGUST 1ST, 1901.
FIVE CENTS.
Good for supplies to Prisoners-of-War
only at the Company's Store,
RAGAMA
CEYLON ICE & COLD STORAGE Co. Ltd.
Value
5 cts.
Agents & Secretaries.
Manager

Reverse

Blank.

Comments

For Boer prisoners that worked at the ice company at the Ragama Camp.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1901-Aug-01 

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