Evidence coverage: 1872–1949. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Ceylon public accounts were kept in rupees and cents from1January1872. Existing sterling statutory and contractual treasury payments were payable in rupees at two shillings per rupee.
Sources and qualifications →Retain later territorial/national rupee identity; earliest colonial note and coin evidence does not by itself date independent account denomination. Do not merge entire later currency into INR because early circulating standard was Indian rupee.
Sources and qualifications →The Ceylon rupee developed from local Indian-rupee accounting: public accounts used rupees and cents from1872; an independent Ceylon rupee subsequently separated from INR, with the link explicitly severed in1949. Regional descent is documented; the broad interval represents differentiation, not uncertainty that the ancestry exists. Do not equate local note issue with the sole creation date.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Ceylon public accounts were kept in rupees and cents from1January1872. Existing sterling statutory and contractual treasury payments were payable in rupees at two shillings per rupee.
C1489Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
The central bank's history dates decimal coinage to 17 March 1872, with 100 cents per rupee. It describes the central bank as inheriting the existing currency system in 1950.
C507Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The central bank's history dates decimal coinage to 17 March 1872, with 100 cents per rupee. It describes the central bank as inheriting the existing currency system in 1950.
PDF p.101, currency history paragraph and footnotes 2–4
Ceylon’s local currency notes were redeemable in rupees under the 1884 ordinance; the 1892 order prescribed the British Indian rupee as standard. A qualified regional branch records local currency development, not a new unit invented by decimal coins.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V22-036. Regional descent is documented; the broad interval represents differentiation, not uncertainty that the ancestry exists. Do not equate local note issue with the sole creation date. Replacement evidence: C1608.
Country entries Ceylon and Siam; contemporary account of currency legislation; PDF p.101, currency history paragraph and footnotes 2–4
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Country entries Ceylon and Siam; contemporary account of currency legislation; PDF p.101, currency history paragraph and footnotes 2–4
The Maldivian rupee, later called rufiyaa, replaced the Ceylonese rupee in 1947. No exact conversion rate or exclusive currency use asserted; local coin and larin history remains open.
Money and Banking, paragraph2.26, PDFp35; report based on July1979mission, government comments throughSeptember1980
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Ceylon public accounts were kept in rupees and cents from1January1872. Existing sterling statutory and contractual treasury payments were payable in rupees at two shillings per rupee.
ChapterIII §§14,17
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full chapter transcription inspected.
Retain later territorial/national rupee identity; earliest colonial note and coin evidence does not by itself date independent account denomination. Do not merge entire later currency into INR because early circulating standard was Indian rupee.
China customs-gold discussion, printed p.40 footnote 38; Ceylon and Mauritius country sections (Mauritius printed p.79)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Ceylon rupee developed from local Indian-rupee accounting: public accounts used rupees and cents from1872; an independent Ceylon rupee subsequently separated from INR, with the link explicitly severed in 1949.
Fernando §§14,17,19; Exter pp.3–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full chapter transcription inspected.
Fernando §§14,17,19; Exter pp.3–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.