1991 - 2006 : 1000 Rupee note
Sri Lanka Heritage

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued for circulation, 1000 Rupee Currency Notes in a series of notes that started in 1991 on theme Sri Lanka Heritage.
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Click on image to see Note Security under Ultra-Violet illumination
Predominant Color :Front - Green with bit of brown, purple and Yellow in background design
:Back - Green with bit of brown, red and purple on peacock
Size: 157 x 78.5 mm
Front: Landscape
Decorated Maligawa tusker Raja with Mahout on right, Moonstone above decorate in lower center with smaller caparisoned elephant with casket on left with floral design above with eight petal flower shape rectangle on left. Carved panel with standing Gaja Sinha facing right on bottom left.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 1000 at upper two and lower right corners. At upper center the value රුපියල් දාහයි in Sinhala.
ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் in Thamil
and ONE THOUSAND RUPEES in English, in Two vertical lines at lower left border.
In Top center in Sinhala, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and Central Bank of Sri Lanka 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 YYYY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on upper left and bottom right.
Braille:None on ths series.
Back: Portrait
Octogan of the Temple of the tooth relic in background with, two Peacocks at Bottom. On upper panel Divided Lotus flower eight petal flower shape rectangle top left of center of lower panel.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 1000 at top left and Bottom right. රුපියල් දාහයි in Sinhala, upper right.
ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் in Thamil
and ONE THOUSAND RUPEES in English. in 2 lines of decreasing font size left justified on bottom.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව in Sinhala, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA in English, in 3 lines of decreasing font size, centered on top.
At bottom centered just below horizontal decorate in small script
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
1991-19921995-2006
Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword in right paw, outlined darker than paper. 2006-07-03 CornerStones
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note.
2001-12-12 : A 4mm Starwide Cleartext Thread with a curved line monogram along security strip.
2006-07-03 : A 4mm Starchrome Thread with RS 1000 SRI LANKA and Mirror of same interspaced with butterfly motif along security strip.
Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Serial Numbers in Green. A rectangular highlight large numeric 1000 upper left of center, a band on right and on left omitting watermark panel. After 1995 with additional UV printing of blanked decorate below in Greenish Yellow. Back: Highlight band across lower of center over peacocks.
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Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center, the Numeric value 1000 written with diagonal lines tilted left on a background of diagonal lines tilted right, as seen on this 1200 dpi scan on right. Advanced Latent image on the 1995-2006 notes not clearly visible in scan. Click to see it highlighted by image processing. You can also see Latent image with a bright light illuminating the note tilted at a particular angle.
Replacement Notes See details with images for series in *-Notes

Deno.Date on
BankNote 
Finance MinisterCBSL GovernorFi rst Serial #Mintage
in K
Repla.
Prefix
Rs.1000 1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake G/1 000001 4,000(Z/6)
Rs.1000 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka G/5 000001 26,000Z/6
Blanked Emblem
Rs.1000 1995-11-15 C.B.Kumaratunga A.S.Jayawardena G/31 000001 75,000Z/6
Wide Security - Curves
Rs.1000 2001-12-12 K.N. Choksy A.S.Jayawardena G/106 000001 25,000Z/6
Rs.1000 2004-04-10 Sarath Amunugama A.S.Jayawardena G/131 000001 25,000Z/6
Rs.1000 2004-07-01 Sarath Amunugama Sunil Mendis G/156 000001 30,065Z/6
Wide Security - Text
Rs.1000 2006-07-03 Mahinda Rajapaksa Ajith Nivard Cabraal G/186 065001 60,000Z/6

The Elephant Raja was born in the jungles of Eravur in Batticaloa District about 1913. He was captured along with few other elephants by a group of men headed by a Muslim man named Umaru Lebbe Panikkar in November 1925, who became its Mahout (Trainer) and appears with the Tusker on the 1991 Rs 1000 currency note. Raja carried the sacred casket at the annual perahera in Kandy from 1950 to 1987 and died in July 1988. See 2004 February Story on lankaweb.

In 1988 I was doing research at DAO in Victoria, Canada at the time and remember reading a headline in the "National Enquirer" saying "Sacred Elephant dies gets Stuffed". Assumed it to be typical Tabloid Fake News. Raja's stuffed remains are presently in a special museum within the grounds of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.

For collected details of the images on this Banknote see NotesCollector.
The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.