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Obverse : The Armorial Ensign of Sri Lanka within circle of dashes along periphery with raised rim.
Reverse : An proile image of the President His Excellency J. R. Jayewardene facing left in the center
with the date 1978.02.04 of inaugaration below.
රුපියලයි in Sinhala,
on to p, and
ஒரு ரூபாய்
in Thamil on left, and ONE RUPEE on right. The country name
ශ්රී ලංකා
(Sri Lanka) in Sinhala only, centered at bottom. All within circle of dashes along periphery with raised rim.
This Gold coin used the same rare JR Right Shoulder Straight coin die.
With the small consignment of 2600 coin brought for the function were 30 coins of minted as gold frosted Proofs and weighed 12.82 gms (~1.6 sovereigns) The Central Bank paid £42.14 for each of these coins of which £33.89 was Bullion. 10 more of these gold coins were ordered subsequently for £52.14 each. The gold coins were distributed among the cabinet members. Two of the gold coins are on display at the Currency Museum of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. I got it finally listed in Krause in the 2002 edition.
The Gold coin is a POMS (Presentation Off-Metal Strike). i.e. since the non-standard metal makes it non-legal tender they are not NCLT.
The coin image from the CBSL had been scanned at 300 dpi and the images are displayed at 254 dpi.