₨200 — Two Hundred Rupees
The artwork
Front: The Sri Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, rises behind its moat wall, with the octagonal Pattirippuwa at the right. Below runs a frieze of the island's history — guardsmen, dancers, a line of monks, a bullock cart and royal palanquin, and at the right a Portuguese-era encounter with musketeers and pikes. Issuer named vertically in Sinhala, Tamil and English; the lion emblem sits in a clear window.
Back: The Independence Memorial Hall in Colombo, its stone pillars and tiled roof modelled on the Kandyan audience chamber, fills the centre. Around it the modern republic: plantation and harvest workers, a reservoir dam, satellite dish, airport and airliner, container port, schoolgirls with books, and a family group in festival dress. Along the foot, "Independence 1948-1998" in Sinhala, Tamil and English. Serial N/21 448166 in green.','
In circulation
Issued 4 February 1998 for the fiftieth anniversary of independence, and dated as such on the face. The 200-rupee value was never carried into the ordinary series, so no later note replaced it; the 2010 Development, Prosperity and Dancers issue skipped the denomination entirely. Still legal tender, but seldom met with in change.
Details
- IssuerCentral Bank of Sri Lanka
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationTwo Hundred Rupees
- Collectedon the Sri Lanka journey, 2005
- Series50th Anniversary of Independence commemorative, dated 1998-02-04
- PrinterNote Printing Australia
- SecurityPolymer substrate with clear window bearing the lion emblem; shadow image of the denomination
- SignatureTwo signatures beneath the Sinhala legal-tender text, dated 1998-02-04