1987 - 1990 : Sri Lanka
Historical and Development
100 Rupee note

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued in for circulation, a 100 Rupee Currency Note in a series of Notes called Sri Lanka Historical and Development.
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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
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.
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 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 19YY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on lower left of center and upper right.
Braille:Five small squares printed in relief incorporated vertically on the right hand side border of the note.
Back: Portrait
New complex for Sri Lanka House of Representatives with 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 .
Within a decorative border, Numeric 100 at top left and Bottom right. රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala. நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil, and ONE HUNDRED RUPEES in English, in 3 lines of decreasing font size 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
BRADBURY WILKINSON.
Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword in right paw, outlined 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 with large numeric 100 highlighting design at center. UV-printing in front of Notes issued with date 1987-01-01 and 1988-02-01 is in Orange, while the later dates 1989-02-21 and 1990-04-05 is in Green
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.
Replacement Notes See details with images for series in *-Notes

Deno.Date on
BankNote 
Finance MinisterCBSL GovernorFirst Serial #Mintage
in K
Repla.
Prefix
Rs.100 1987-01-01 Ronnie de Mel Warnasena Rasaputram C/1   000001 10,000(R/5)
Rs.100 1988-02-01 M.H.M.Nainamarikkar Warnasena Rasaputram C/11 000001 34,000 R/5
Rs.100 1989-02-21 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake C/45 000001 10,000(R/5)
Rs.100 1990-04-05 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake C/55 000001 21,000 R/5
Minister of Finance Governor
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
1987-01-01
Ronnie de Mel Warnasena Rasaputram
1988-02-01
M.H.M.Nainamarikkar Warnasena Rasaputram
1989-02-21 1990-04-05
D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake

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