1991 - 2006 : Currency notes
Sri Lanka Heritage

• Replaced series of Notes issued from 1987 to 1990.
• The Printer's name was changed to De La Rue with which Bradbury Wilkinsons had merged.
• Replacement Notes were issued with prefix Z/1, Z/2, Z/3, Z/4, Z/5, Z/6, for denominations Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 100, Rs 500, Rs 1000 respectively.
  Any replacement note date+denominations that the LakdivaCollection does don't have, or a specimen has not been reported or shown to me has been put within brackets untill such time as I find a specimen or one is reported to me as their issue has not been fully confirmed.
  For details of Replacement Notes with images for series in *-Notes
• The 1991-01-01 missed a dot in a Thamil letter creating a Rare Variety with a mintage of under 1 Million notes.
• The Color of Back of Rs100 Notes was changed from Dark Brown to Orange during issue dated 1992-07-01.
• The Rs 20 dated 1994-08-19 with a mintage of only 6 Million is the most difficult to find in this series.
• With the 1995-11-15 issue the UV printing on the notes were enhanced. Visually the front bottom center design emblem appears blanked.
• With the 2001-12-12 issue the two high denominations Rs500 and Rs1000 got a wider security strip with a curved line monogram along it.
• Dated 2005-11-02 A new Rs2000 denomination was added but was not continued in next series.
• With the 2005-11-15 issue the wider security strip on the two high denominations Rs500 and Rs1000 got Micro Text with CBSL and the Numeric Denomination like the new Rs2000.
• On the Last fixed date of Series 2006-07-03 the Last Rs10 currency note was issued, replaced with a Coin in 2009.
• The next series of Notes dated 2010-01-01 were issued only in 2011 February.

		Pink	164x82 mm	Rs2000 note	2005-2006 Wide Security Text
		Green	157x78 mm	Rs1000 notes	1991-1994 1995-2005 (blanked emblem)
		Brown	150x75 mm	Rs 500 notes	1991-1994 1995-2005 (blanked emblem)
		Dark Brown	143x71 mm	Rs 100 notes	1991-1992
		Orange	143x71 mm	Rs 100 notes	1992-1994 1995-2006 (blanked emblem)
		Blue	136x68 mm	Rs 50 notes	1991-1994 1995-2006 (blanked emblem)
		Violet	129x64 mm	Rs 20 notes	1991-1994 1995-2006 (blanked emblem)
		Green	122x61 mm	Rs 10 notes	1991-1994 1995-2006 (blanked emblem)

Minister of Finance	Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka
1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka 1994-08-19 C.B.Kumaratunga H.B.Disanayaka 1995-11-15 C.B.Kumaratunga A.S.Jayawardena 2001-12-12 K.N. Choksy A.S.Jayawardena 2004-04-10 Sarath Amunugama A.S.Jayawardena 2004-07-01 2005-11-02 Sarath Amunugama Sunil Mendis 2005-11-19 Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunil Mendis 2006-07-03 Mahinda Rajapaksa Ajith Nivard Cabraal

The name of Bank Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Front of Note and CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA on Back. This format was used from 1987 when the new name was adopted to 2006 and Front reverted to all Capitals in 2010.

The notes scanned at 300 dpi and displayed above at 25 dpi.

In 2025 Lakshan Hirumal designed a nice set of folders 7 3/4 by 4 3/4 inches (197x120 mm) for this CBSL 10th Series including all 7 issues of 2006-07-03, which shares the same design features as the 11th Series issued by CBSL in 2011 for notes dated 2010-01-01. On back bottom left he states Banknote information extracted from - notes.lakdiva.org.lk