1991 - 2006 : 100 Rupee note
Sri Lanka Heritage

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued in for circulation, 100 Rupee Currency Notes in a series of notes that started in 1991 on theme Sri Lanka Heritage.
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Click on image to see Note Security under Ultra-Violet illumination
Predominant
Color
:Front - Orange with dark brown and Yellow and Pink in background
:Back - Dark Brown with Orange with a bit of yellow and pink
or later Orange with a bit of yellow, pink and green.
Size: 143 x 71.5 mm
Front: Landscape
Decorative Pot (Manjusawa) on right, Moonstone above decorate in lower center with Guard Stone on left with flower design above with bead loop on left.
Within a decorative border and center, Numeric 100 at upper two and lower right corners. At upper center the value රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala. நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil, and ONE HUNDRED RUPEES in English, in Two vertical lines at lower left border.
In Top center in Sinhala, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and Central Bank of Sri Lanka in English in next two lines with decreasing font size.
Next in even smaller font thr Legality Legend in 3 lines
ශ්‍රී ලංකාණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද මේ
මුදල් නෝට්ටුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත ඕනෑම මුදල් ගණනක්
ගෙවිම සඳහා නිතියෙන් වලංගුය
Two Facsimile signatures above මුදල් ඈමති, and next මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති.
Below Date YYYY-MM-DD
Horizontal Serial number on on upper left and bottom right.
Braille: None on ths series.
Back: Portrait
Sigiriya Rock in background with, four women with baskets on their back picking tea leaves and a pair of parakeets on foliage. On upper panel Divided flower with leaves. Bead Loop top left of center of lower panel.
Within a decorative border, Numeric 100 at top left and Bottom right. රුපියල් සියයයි in Sinhala upper right. நூறு ரூபாய் in Thamil, and ONE HUNDRED RUPEES in English, in 2 lines of decreasing font size left justified on bottom.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව in Sinhala, இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி in Thamil and CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA in English, in 3 lines of decreasing font size, justified on right on top of lower panel.
At bottom centered just below horizontal decorate in small script
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
1991-19921995-2006
Watermark: Lion from national Flag standing facing left with sword in right paw, outlined darker than paper.
Security Thin polyester thread of 1 mm width embedded in note. Micro-printing background pattern.
UV Printing: Front: Serial Numbers in Green. A rectangular highlight large numeric 20 upper left of center,and from 1995 to 2006 with additional UV printing of blanked decorate below in Greenish Yellow.
Back: Highlight of leaves of divided flower and decorative radial of background sky behind Sigiriya
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Latent image: At the center of motif at front bottom center, the Numeric value 100 written with diagonal lines tilted left on a background of diagonal lines tilted right, as seen on this 1200 dpi scan on right. Advanced Latent image on the 1995-2006 notes not clearly visible in scan. Click to see it highlighted by image processing. You can also see Latent image with a bright light illuminating the note tilted at a particular angle.
Replacement Notes See details with images for series in *-Notes

Deno.Date on
BankNote 
Finance MinisterCBSL GovernorFirst Serial #Mintage
in K
Repla.
Prefix
Rs.100 1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake J/1 000001 1,000Z/4
Thamil Dot added
Rs.100 1991-01-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.N.S.Karunatillake J/2 000001 14,000Z/4
Rs.100 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka J/16 000001 37,000Z/4
Orange Back - Wide J
Rs.100 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka J/53 000001 20,000Z/4
Normal J
Rs.100 1992-07-01 D.B.Wijethunga H.B.Disanayaka J/73 000001 53,000Z/4
Blanked Emblem
Rs.100 1995-11-15 C.B.Kumaratunga A.S.Jayawardena J/126 000001 110,000Z/4
Rs.100 2001-12-12 K.N. Choksy A.S.Jayawardena J/236 000001 100,000Z/4
Rs.100 2004-07-01 Sarath Amunugama Sunil Mendis J/336 000001 55,250Z/4
Rs.100 2005-11-19 Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunil Mendis J/391 250001 140,000Z/4
Rs.100 2006-07-03 Mahinda Rajapaksa Ajith Nivard Cabraal J/531 250001 50,000Z/4

The 1991-01-01 dated Rs 100 note did not have a DOT in the Thamil word Rupay which was written in error as ரூபாய and was corrected to ரூபாய் within the First Million Notes, after the error was noticed. There is also some low Serial numbers where the Dot seems to have been added by hand. All the notes in the comparison on left has J/1 Preffix. The No Dot variety is rare.

The 1992-07-01 dated Rs 100 note has three Varieties. The Back of Note was changed from a Dark Brown to Orange for the second order with prefix between J/53 and J/73. The J in the Prefix was also made wider but was changed back in the third order.

The note was scanned at 300 dpi and displayed at 50 dpi.