₨50 — Fifty Rupees
The artwork
Front: A Kandyan ves dancer in three-quarter profile, the beaded and studded headdress and heavy silver ear ornaments picked out in mauve against blue and green guilloche. The heading runs in Sinhala across the top, then Tamil and English — Central Bank of Sri Lanka — with the value spelled out in Sinhala below and repeated vertically in Tamil and English at the left. Two signatures over Sinhala titles, the date 2004-04-10, and the serial K/206 534557 twice.
Back: Ceremonial regalia of the perahera: two long dragon-headed horns, all teeth, whiskers and pendant ornament, laid across a broad fan-shaped sesath whose disc is worked in concentric bands. Behind them, faint drums, a tree and a stupa in pale green and grey. The bilingual bank name sits upright in the right-hand third, with the 50 in an ornamental cartouche and yellow butterflies on leafy sprays along the edge band.
In circulation
The design belongs to the series introduced in 1991 and reprinted through the 1990s and 2000s, this one dated 10 April 2004. It was superseded from 2010 by the Central Bank's "Development, Prosperity and Sri Lanka Dancers" series, whose blue 50 rupees now carries the denomination; the older notes drifted out of tills over the following years.
Details
- IssuerCentral Bank of Sri Lanka
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationFifty Rupees
- Collectedon the Sri Lanka journey, 2005
- Series1991 design; dated 10 April 2004
- SignatureMinister of Finance and Governor of the Central Bank
- DimensionsAbout 148 × 67 mm