SRI LANKA'S VARNISHED BANKNOTES

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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 37, September 16, 2018, Article 32

SRI LANKA'S VARNISHED BANKNOTES

Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga of Sri Lanka submitted these notes on the Reserve Bank of India's varnished banknotes. Thanks. -Editor

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka Annual report for 2014 Part02 Sec 5.2(a) states

"Several improvements were made to the quality of currency notes by increasing the thickness of currency paper and introducing a coating of varnish for low denominations of currency notes to enhance the durability of the Notes."

Denominations Rs 20, 50 and 100 with No change in 2010-01-01 date on the issue, or any Press release. I have reported this in my webpage
http://notes.lakdiva.org/cbsl/2010lkdpd/

And give the Serial numbers for each denomination with and without varnish in individual pages linked from it like
http://notes.lakdiva.org/cbsl/2010lkdpd/2010_lkdpd_20r.html

I'm not sure if SCWPM has listed it as a variety. These web pages are trilingual like the Ceylon and Sri Lanka Currency Notes. They are part of a website I have developed over last year with about 200 web pages documenting with images of about 300 types of Ceylon and Sri Lanka currency notes since 1785 which also include a complete set of UV images the most beautiful of which are posted at
http://notes.lakdiva.org/uvbest_lk.html

The Ceylon Currency website particularly on the Currency from 1785 to 1885 goes beyond what has been published in SCWPM and by Owen Linzmayer. The notes issued by Private Banks between 1844 and 1884 are considered as Specialized issues, when they were the only currency of Ceylon between 1856 and 1884.

To visit Kavan's web site, see:
http://notes.lakdiva.org/

Kavan Ratnatunga published an article in the SundayTimes of Sri Lanka about the ultraviolet light features of Sri Lankan banknotes - see the next article in this issue for an excerpt. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
INDIA CONSIDERS VARNISHED BANKNOTES (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n36a38.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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