1991 - 2005 : 500 Rupee notes
Sri Lanka Heritage

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued in for circulation, 500 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 - Brown with Pink, Blue, Yellow and Orange in background
:Back - Brown with Green leaves background decorate.
Size: 150 x 75 mm
Front: Landscape
Two Drummers on right, Moonstone above decorate in lower center with smaller Kandyan dancer on left with Bo-tree above with six petal flower shape on left. Side view of Makara facing right on bottom left.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 500 at upper two and lower right corners. At upper center the value රුපියල් පන්සියයයි in Sinhala, ஐந்நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil and FIVE HUNDRED 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
Ruwanveliseya Dagaba in background with, with two Cataliya Orchid flowers in foliage at Bottom. On upper panel Divided Stork-billed KingFisher with Fish in beak on branch with leaves. Six petal flower top left of center of lower panel.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 500 at top left and Bottom right. රුපියල් පන්සියයයි in Sinhala upper right. ஐந்நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil and FIVE HUNDRED 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..
1991-19921995-2005
Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword in right paw, outlined darker than paper. 2005-11-15 CornerStones
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note.
2001-12-12 : A 3mm Starwide Cleartext Thread with a curved line monogram along security strip.
2005-11-15 : A 3mm Starchrome Thread with RS 500 interspaced with butterfly motif along security strip.
Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Serial Numbers in Green. A rectangular highlight large numeric 500 upper left of center, in Green and after 1995 with additional UV printing of blanked decorate below in Yellow. Back: Highlight of kingfisher and divided leaves and decorative radial of background sky behind Stupa.
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Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center, the Numeric value 500 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 Engraved by:: James Moore. Ref: BMC back

Deno.Date on
BankNote 		Finance MinisterCBSL GovernorFirst Serial #Mintage
in K		Repla.
Prefix
Rs.500 1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake H/1 000001 20,000Z/5
Rs.500 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka H/21 000001 16,000Z/5
Rs.500 1995-11-15 C.B.Kumaratunga A.S.Jayawardena H/37 000001 35,000Z/5
Blanked Emblem
Rs.500 2001-12-12 K.N. Choksy A.S.Jayawardena H/72 000001 15,000Z/5
Wide Security - Geometric
Rs.500 2004-04-10 Sarath Amunugama A.S.Jayawardena H/87 000001 10,000Z/5
Rs.500 2004-07-01 Sarath Amunugama Sunil Mendis H/97 000001 15,151Z/5
Wide Security - Text
Rs.500 2005-11-19 Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunil Mendis H/112 151001 55,000Z/5

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The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.