1982 : Sri Lanka - 100 Rupee note
Historical and Archaeological

The Central Bank of Ceylon (CBSL) issued in 1983 April for circulation, a 100 Rupee Currency Note dated 1982-01-01 in a series of Notes that started in 1981 on theme Historical and Archaeology of Sri Lanka.
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Image on Front and back are identified in Sinhala, Thamil and English in increasing Font size printed next to it.
Predominant Color :Front - Orange with dark brown image on right and Yellow and Pink in background left of center
:Back - Orange with dark Brown with a bit of yellow and blue in decorate around watermark panel.
Size: 156 x 76 mm
Front: Landscape
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 100 at all four corners. At upper center the value රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala. நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil, and ONE HUNDRED RUPEES in English, at bottom center.
In Top center in Sinhala, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and CENTRAL BANK OF CEYLON in English in next two lines with decreasing font size.
Next in even smaller font thr Legality Legend in 3 lines
ශ්‍රී ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ
මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක්
ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය
Two Facsimile signatures above මුදල් ඈමති, and next මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති.
Below Date 1982-01-01
Horizontal Serial number on lower left of center and upper right.
The Balustrade on side of entrance step with a seated lion left, with face turned forward and left paw up and tail curled over body. with caption bottom left of it in Sinhala කොරවක් ගල, අනුරාධපුර., Thamil சிற்பக்கல், அனுராதபுரம்., and English STONE CARVING, ANURADHAPURA.
Braille:Five small squares printed in relief incorporated vertically on the right hand side border of the note.
Back: Portrait
Within a decorative border, Numeric 100 at top left and Bottom right. ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව in Sinhala, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and CENTRAL BANK OF CEYLON in English, in 3 lines of decreasing font size, centered on top.
රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala. நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil, and ONE HUNDRED RUPEES in English, in 3 lines of decreasing font size justified on bottom.
New complex for Sri Lanka Parliament the architecture of this House of Representatives built in 1982 was done by Geoffrey Bawa. Caption bottom left of it in Sinhala පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්දිරය ශ්‍රි ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ, Thamil பாராளுமன்றக் கட்டடம், ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்த்தனபுர கோட்டை, and English PARLIAMENT BUILDING OF JAYWARDHANAPURA KOTTE .
At bottom centered just below horizontal decorate in small script
BRADBURY WILKINSON.
Watermark: Lion standing on hind legs facing left with bent whip in right paw, Lion Lighter with outline including whip darker than paper.
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note. Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Signature, Date and Serial Numbers, in Green. On right outlines of large Flag Lion with Sword in raised right paw in yellow with large numeric 100 highlighting design at center.
Back: Highlight of decorative border around watermark panel in Greenish Yellow.
Latent image: Within the decorates in the motif at front bottom center, the Numeric value 100 written with horizontal lines on vertical line background, as seen on this 1200 dpi scan on right.

Denom.Date on
BankNote 		Finance MinisterCBSL GovernorFirst Serial #Mintage
in K
Rs.100 1982-01-01 Ronnie de Mel Warnasena Rasaputram S/1 000001 50,000
Minister of Finance Governor
Central Bank of Ceylon
1982-01-01
Ronnie de Mel Warnasena Rasaputram

Text edited from book Sri Lanka Currency of Recent Times 1938 - 1985 by Mr. T M U Sallay 1986 CBSL Colombo.
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The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.