1979 - Sri Lanka - Flora and Fauna
Specimen Notes

The Central Bank of Ceylon (CBSL) issued, for circulation, in 1979 a series of currency notes on Flora and Fauna of Sri Lanka issued in 1980 August dated 1979-03-26 and based on the paintings of Laki Senanayake (1937-2021). Printed by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ld, New Malden, Surrey, England but printer name is not on the notes.

Orange155x76 mmRs 100 note
Blue 146x73 mmRs 50 note
Violet137x70 mmRs 20 note
Green 127x67 mmRs 10 note
Gray 118x64 mmRs 5 note
Pink 108x60 mmRs 2 note

Red SPECIMEN stamped in a diagonal upwards in front and downwards on back.

A 3 digit specimen control number is stamped on the back upper right edge in black as NNN
Normally a bundle of 100 are printed for distribution to local Banks.

A single punch hole in the middle space used for the signatures and date.
All of the Ceylon 1979 Specimens found on online Auction Archives curiously did not have the Dummy Serial Number, Date, or Signatures printed on them.

The 2021 CBSL 70th Anniv book has published images of 1979 000000 Serial notes(except the Rs100), but they don't have any SPECIMEN stamp on them.

If anyone has a 1979 Specimen with 000000 Serial Number, Date, and Signatures printed please send images to kavan@ @ gmail.com or WhatsApp +94712537551

The specimen note images at 119+ dpi from online Auctions, are displayed above at 25 dpi.

See other Specimen S-Notes in notes.lakdiva.org.lk a website for
Banknotes of Ceylon and Sri Lanka since 1785.