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The Notes are 89 by 64 mm i.e. 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches.
Printed by Ceylon Government Press.
Water-mark : The left or right half water-mark which has word
RESTRICTION in a line in middle with CEYLON GOVERNMENT
in two arcs above and below forming an ellipse.
Front : Green floral background. Green central Under-print
motif has silhouette of mountain Range centered with Siri Pada within
region made up of a large (36mm) central circle with two smaller(24mm)
circles centered at 3 an 9 O'clock on rim.
In Black Text, the words Twenty Five Cents in English,
ශත විසිපහ in Sinhala, and
இருபத்தைந்து சதம் in Thamil
in three lines. The Numerical value 25
with Twenty Five Cents in text below within double line box on
right.
THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON on upper left in one line. Just below
the words in 2 lines
This note is legal tender for the payment of a sum not exceeding
Five Rupees.
Below Serial number on left and 2 signatures H. J. Huxham &
C. H. Collins with Commissioners of Currency below on right.
Date January 1, 1942 on left.
Back : Blank
The Notes are printed on one-side of Ceylon Government Security paper
used to print Coupons for Tea and Rubber Export Controller of Ceylon.
The Tea coupons,
the 1941 Final issue coupons
and the 1942 1st Advanced issue coupons
use the watermark that appears on these Emergency Currency Notes.
The red underprint is like the central motif in 1937 and 1938 Rubber
coupons drawn at the Survey Department in Ceylon.
| Date on BankNote | Signatures of Commissioners of Currency | First Serial # | Mintage in K | |
| January 1, 1942 |  | 
| A/1 000001 | 4120 |
| H. J. Huxham | C. H. Collins | |||
Note American style date used only on these locally printed notes.
According to Sri Lanka Currency of Recent Times 1938-1985 by T. M. U. Sallay, published in 1986 Colombo:Central Bank of Sri Lanka 107,276 of these notes (2.6%) remain unsurrendered. Notes A/4 120001 - A/4 240000 were probably never issued as they are not mentioned in the demontisation notice of 1942 June 19th.
The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.
All of these WWII fractional currency notes were only legal tender for payment of amounts less than Five Rupees. Maybe it was the lack of security features that made the Currency Board impose this limit.
This circulated note from WWII Ceylon which is not as rare as the 50c
note, issued at same time
A very good but dirty note was first obtained in 2000 August from a shop
in Kandy and subsequently a VF grad note (shown above) was won on ebay in 2002 March.
The unc note also shown above which shows the left half of watermark is from
the collection of Mr Leonard Konstz.