Government of Ceylon : 1946
George VI Pictorial Pattern - Rs 10,000

King George VI Pictorial Ten Thousand Rupees BankNote Pattern by the Board of Commissioners of Currency dated 7th May 1946, it was dated 15th October 1947 and introduced in 1947 December for inter-bank transactions only.
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The Notes are 191 by 140 mm i.e. 7 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches.
Printed by lithography process in India Government Security Press.
Water-mark: Ratnapura Raised Lion with whip on paper manufactured by Messrs Portals Ltd.

Front : Green on Lilac and blue underprint. Portrait of King George VI on the left, a water-mark panel on the right, and the value in words TEN THOUSAND RUPEES in 3 lines in center and in figures 10000 on the top two corners. GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON above THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT in two lines. The date 7TH May 1946 appears below the two facsimile signatures of O.E. Goonetilleke & C.E. Jones COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY. The value රුපියල් දසදාහයි in Sinhala on upper left, and பதினாயிரவ் ரூபாய் in Thamil on lower right. The Serial number on the lower left hand side and upper right hand side.
Back : Green on a Lilac and blue tint underprint with Micro printing text THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON. Pictorial at center with caption KANDY LAKE with small island. Foliage in foreground and the city of Kandy with the Temple of the Tooth Relic and mountains in background. The value in figures 10000 slanted on upper two corners on either side of GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON in an arc. Lower the value රුපියල් දසදාහයි in Sinhala on left, and பதினாயிரவ் ரூபாய் in Thamil on right.

The 2011 publication 60th Anniversary Commemorative Volume of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has chapter on Currency issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka by Ms. S.H. Gunawardena. She make a reference to this 1947 Rs10,000 note, but I noticed that rather then the word SPECIMEN the banknote with the logo of Currency Note Press (CNP) a division of the India Security Press, Nasik, and is dated 7TH MAY 1946 and has signatures of O. E. Goonetilleke and C. E. Jones. Low resolution 50 dpi image from the PDF was replaced with a 300 dpi image obtained from CBSL via RTI 0134/2021 and posted below images above. It is clearly more multicolor and redder than the 1947 banknote shown above interbank transactions. It is possible that the color of the 1947 note I scanned has red color faded like shown with positive proof for the 1943 Rs 1 note. It maybe the Specimen Note shown on TV at time of issue of Rs5000 note.

Shailen Bhandare of Ashmolean Museum commented that with the 'CNP' mark instead of 'specimen' indicates that this is a colour trial.