Ceylon

pre-decimal coinage

Portuguese rule

• Ceylon (1598-1621) 1/4 bazaruco
• Ceylon 1640 tanga
• Ceylon 1642 tanga
• Ceylon 1645 2 tangas
• Ceylon 1649 2 tangas

Dutch rule

• Ceylon 1783-G 2 stuiver
• 1792 stuiver, Dutch legend

British rule

• Ceylon 1802 1/192 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1802 1/96 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1801 1/48 rixdollar hammered
• Ceylon 1802 1/48 rixdollar KM-66 hammered
• Ceylon 1802 1/48 rixdollar KM-75 milled
• Ceylon 1812 1/48 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1815 1/48 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1801 1/24 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1815 1/24 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1814 1/12 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1815 1/2 stiver
• Ceylon 1815 stiver
• Ceylon 1815 2 stivers
• Ceylon 1808 24 stivers
• Ceylon 1803 48 stivers
• Ceylon 1804 48 stivers
• Ceylon 1805 48 stivers
• Ceylon 1809 48 stivers
• Ceylon 1808 96 stivers
• Ceylon 1815 rixdollar
• Ceylon 1821 rixdollar
• Ceylon (1823) 4 fanams = ⅓ rixdollar, c/m on Madras ¼ rupee
• Ceylon (1823) 16 fanams = 1⅓ rixdollar, c/m on a Madras rupee
• Great Britain 1837 1/2 farthing
• Great Britain 1844 half farthing
• Great Britain 1839 1½ pence
• Great Britain 1843 1½ pence

decimal coinage (1870-1972)

quarter cent

• Ceylon 1870 1/4 cent
• 1890 ¼ cent
• Ceylon 1892 1/4 C Silver
• 1898 ¼ cent
• Ceylon 1901 1/4 cent
• 1904 ¼ cent

half cent

• Ceylon 1890 1/2 cent
• Ceylon 1892 1/2 cent
• 1904 ½ cent
• 1906 ½ cent
• 1908 ½ cent
• Ceylon 1909 1/2 cent
• Ceylon 1917 1/2 cent
• 1926 ½ cent
• 1940 ½ cent

one and two cents

• Ceylon 1870 cent
• 1890 cent
• 1891 cent
• Ceylon 1892 cent
• 1900 cent
• 1904 cent
• 1905 cent
• 1906 cent
• 1908 cent
• 1909 cent
• 1910 cent
• 1912 cent
• 1923 cent
• Ceylon 1925 cent
• Ceylon 1926 cent
• Ceylon 1928 cent
• 1940 cent
• Ceylon 1943 cent
• 1945 cent
• Ceylon 1963 cent
• 1965 cent
• 1970 cent
• Ceylon 1944 2 cents
• 1951 2 cents
• 1965 2 cents

five cents

• Ceylon 1870 5 cents
• 1890 5 cents
• 1892 5 cents
• 1909 5 cents
• Ceylon 1910 5 cents
• Ceylon 1912-H 5 cents
• Ceylon 1943 5 cents
• Ceylon 1945 5 cents
• 1951 5 cents
• Ceylon 1968 5 cents
• Ceylon 1991 5 cents

ten cents

• 1892 10 cents
• Ceylon 1893 10 cents
• Ceylon 1894 10 cents
• 1897 10 cents
• Ceylon 1899 10 cents
• 1900 10 cents
• 1902 10 cents
• 1908 10 cents
• 1909 10 cents
• 1910 10 cents
• 1912 10 cents
• 1913 10 cents
• 1914 10 cents
• Ceylon 1917 10 cents
• 1919-B 10 cents
• 1920-B 10 cents
• 1921-B 10 cents
• 1924 10 cents
• Ceylon 1925 10 cents
• 1926 10 cents
• Ceylon 1927 10 cents
• 1928 10 cents
• 1941 10 cents
• Ceylon 1944 10 cents
• 1951 10 cents
• Ceylon 1965 10C KM-Pn11

twenty-five cents

• Ceylon 1892 25 cents
• 1893 25 cents
• Ceylon 1895 25 cents
• 1899 25 cents
• Ceylon 1900 25 cents
• 1902 25 cents
• Ceylon 1908 25 cents
• 1910 25 cents
• 1911 25 cents
• 1913 25 cents
• 1914 25 cents
• 1919-B 25 cents
• 1920-B 25 cents
• Ceylon 1921 25 cents
• 1922 25 cents
• Ceylon 1926 25 cents
• 1951 25 cents
• 1965 25 cents

fifty cents

• 1892 50 cents
• 1893 50 cents
• 1895 50 cents
• 1900 50 cents
• Ceylon 1902 50 cents
• Ceylon 1910 50 cents
• 1913 50 cents
• 1917 50 cents
• 1919-B 50 cents
• 1920-B 50 cents
• 1922 50 cents
• 1925 50 cents
• 1926 50 cents
• 1927 50 cents
• 1928 50 cents
• 1929 50 cents
• 1942 50 cents
• 1951 50 cents
• 1965 50 cents

one rupee

• 1957 rupee, 2,500th anniversary of Buddhism
• Ceylon 1965 rupee
• 1968 2 rupees F.A.O.
• 1957 2500 rupees, 2,500th anniversary of Buddhism

Sri Lanka (since 1972)

• 1978 cent
• 1975 2 cents
• 1978 2 cents
• 1975 5 cents
• 1978 5 cents
• 1988 5 cents
• 1991 5 cents
• 1978 10 cents
• 1982 25 cents
• Sri Lanka 1996 25 cents
• Sri Lanka 2001 25 cents
• 1972 50 cents
• 1982 50 cents
• 1972 rupee
• 1975 rupee
• 1982 rupee
• 1981 2 rupees, Mahaweli Dam
• 1984 2 rupees
• 1991 500 rupees, fifth South Asian Games
• 1998 5000 rupees, 50th anniversary of independence