notes.lakdiva.orgLakdiva BankNote Collection

notes.lakdiva.org.lk Lakdiva Bank Note Collection A web display of a personal collection of legally circulated colonial, and modern currency from Sri Lanka ( Ceylon ) including 300dpi or higher color images with edited information from various sources . Lakdiva BankNote website expanded since 2016 with its own subdoamin has documented over 500 Lankan BankNote Types and other Lankan Numismatic Paper items with greater than 1500 high resolution images in about 400 web pages. Motivated by many reasons this long term project may take many years to complete. It is purely an attempt to catalog Lankan heritage on the web, including as much as I can afford to do so in both money and time. This website is attempting to be complete of all Ceylon and Sri Lanka Notes. All published types have been illustrated and dates documented. IF you have a rare type of an issued note or essay not included in this website please contribute images to kavanr @ gmail.com Significant contribution of high resolution images of Ceylon BankNotes to complete the site will be gratefully acknowledged. Book published based on this website was given Honorable mention in IBNS Book of the year Award for 2019 This website was the featured website on 2020 December 6th in E-sylum a weekly electronic newsletter distributed from the USA to over 6600 numismatic collectors worldwide. This is a No Frames, No Frills website which does not require Flash or any other fancy plug-ins. Only few use JavaScript to flip images. It does not use any Micro-(brained)-Software product, and is run on an UNIX server which is friendly to all Internet browsers. If you a new to this site please read the brief navigating instructions at the bottom of this long page by pulling down the scroll bar on right. If you have any questions on Lankan Coins or Banknotes please send an E-mail to lakdiva_org @ googlegroups.com . This ensures that my reply is archived, and others can search and get an answer without asking same question again. I used to use AllExperts which terminated abruptly after 19 years in 2017 April. Read my former profile at AllExperts.com which is still on archive.org The Sri Lanka Numismatic Society (SLNS) met every 3rd Sunday of the month (except if that is a Public Holiday) from 2-4 PM at the Board Room of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 86, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha (Green Path), Colombo 7. (Mahaweli center, near back entrance to Colombo National Museum). Meetings suspended since 2020 March because of COVID-19 . Met a few months online at same time on GoogleMeet. Now chats on WhatsApp. If you are interested in Coins and Banknotes of Lanka/Ceylon, you are welcome to join. Please introduce yourself with name, location and collecting interests with WhatsApp message to +94712537551. For description of the early paper money system in Lanka please read overview . For the recent value of Lanka Rupee look at depreciation . If you travel in Lanka, I recommend you visit Museums with Lankan BankNotes and Coins. Database : Online Catalog for Lankan Bank Notes since 1785. Current Definitive Currency Notes - Completed Series in 2023 May - - Development, Prosperity and Sri Lanka Dancers Note Series Latest being issued since 2023 Oct dated 2022-07-04 with signatures of current Finance Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe. All current denominations ordered from Rs20 to Rs5000 for Note Series (Reply to CBSL RTI 0162/2023 dated 2023-07-25) Latest Commemorative Currency Note - 2018 February 4th - 2018-02-04 Rs 1000 : 70th Anniversary of Independence, Sri Lanka Note Discovery : A Historic early Essay from the 1956 Transition from English to Sinhala. Collection Topic : Documentation, Conservation, Security and Handling of Banknotes Guide Project : Including Sinhala and Thamil on this website in Unicode Resolved : LTTE notes are Fake Feature : UV Images of Sri Lanka Bank notes under Ultra Violet illumination. Update : Replacement *-Notes 1970-2018 by DeLaRue New : Latent Image on notes 1979-2021 Needs Drawing : Watermarks on Lankan Bank notes 12165-R Interesting Collection Political notes Ceylon USA - Bank notes from Ceylon Minnesota. Recently updated : Ceylon Branch : Mercantile Bank of India, London & China Notes Recently added : Laki Senanayake’s Paintings used for 1979 Flora and Fauna Notes Unseen : Ceylon Banknote Essays RTI CBSL 0012/18 on defaced currency notes Investigative Report : SNIM and the end of Replacement notes Lectures by Dr Kavan Ratnatunga Lankan Banknotes from 1785 to Modern given to the National Trust of Sri Lanka on 2019 June 27th (lecture 117), which was recorded and edited to include the PowerPoint and Video is posted on YouTube and Reviewed Banknotes of The Chartered Mercantile Bank, Ceylon Branch 1857-84 YouTube (14 min). Ceylon Banknotes from 1785 to 1884 given online to the International Bank Note Society on 2021 April 10th, on Webex is posted on YouTube Ceylon Banknotes from 1885 to 1972 given online to the International Bank Note Society on 2022 March 5th, on Zoom is posted on YouTube QEII on Banknotes of Ceylon Sri Lankan Literary Society YouTube (20 min) Please Help, Thanks Refine Issue dates and Prefix+Serial in Ceylon BankNotes from 1887 to 1909. Refine Prefix+Serial and perforated edge in Ceylon BankNotes of 1948 and 1949. Track Prefix+Serial when Date on Banknote change in Current Sri Lanka currency in circulation. Calendars on Lankan Bank Notes : CR 2010 Caution on Forged Notes in Sunday Times : 1999 - 2004 - 2010 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2014 - 2017 - 2020 2021 2023 Currency Management 2014 CBSL PDF High School Unit: Currency 2013 53 min CBSL Video in Sinhala. How to identify counterfeit currency 2014 21 min CeylonToday Video Counterfeit Currency Notes 2014 1 min CBSL Video Advert in Sinhala For Information on Lankan Coins Visit coins.lakdiva.org.lk Bank Notes from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Main Note Collection Numismatics, like some aspects of astronomy and natural history, remains a branch of learning in which the amateur can still do valuable work, and it is on the great collecting public, or rather on that part of which is interested in the subject at a scientific level, that the progress of numismatic science largely depends. Philip Grierson - Prof of Numismatics, University of Cambridge. If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches Anonymous Navigating Instructions Please click on the colored or underlined link such as on the word note to get to page with description and images of each of the items. All of the images are displayed on those pages at less than the scanned resolution of image. These images automatically expand retaining aspect ratio to 90% of width or height of browser window when you mouse over image and return when mouse is removed. Because of the background composed of a grid of lines images may show interference fringes which are not real at certain scales. If captioned below image to click on image, then alternate image(s) will be displayed, and clicking will cycle through these images. Permission is granted for linking over Internet, distribution in print form for educational nonprofit purposes and personal use. Electronic redistribution for nonprofit purposes is permitted, provided this notice is attached in its entirety and please indicate the source, with link to the explicit page in http://notes.lakdiva.org.lk/ from which the image and/or text was taken to enable reader to get latest version. Unauthorized, for-profit redistribution is prohibited. NO permission is granted for commercial use, without request ed and authorized approval. NEVER USE CONTENT OR LINK TO ANY PAGE OF THIS WEB SITE FROM ANY INTERNET AUCTION Read and use the information as you need but please DONOT COPY , any webpage into an Auction Listing © 1998-2014 lakdiva.org The owner of the copyright allows use of any lakdiva.org BankNote images in the Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 lisence:...