{"id":85764,"date":"2019-02-21T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85764"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:24:46","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-of-sri-lanka-rassl-monthly-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/21\/royal-asiatic-society-of-sri-lanka-rassl-monthly-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)- Monthly Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Public\u00a0Lecture<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Lankan Banknotes from 1785 to\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Modern<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dr Kavan Ratnatunga<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>On<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2019 at 5.00 p.m.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>at the<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the Dutch first introduced Paper currency for Ceylon in 1785 to modern currency issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, is a 230-year history of change which reflects changes in Economics, Politics and Technology. Early notes in Rix Dollars were redeemable in Copper. Private Banks such as The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London &amp; China &#8211; Ceylon Branch, Oriental Bank Corporation issued notes from 1844, till they crashed in early 1880 due to the Coffee Blyth. Boer Prisoner of War notes issued around 1900. The government of Ceylon issued Notes with signatures of the Commissioner of Currency from 1885 to 1949. The Central Bank issue Notes under the signature of the Minister of Finance and its Governor from 1951 to present. They are just legal Tender with no intrinsic value. The language on the notes changed from Dutch to English to Sinhala with varying amount of other languages. Only the denomination has always been given in all three languages. Watermarks were introduced around the 1840s and are hardly documented. Ultraviolet printing was introduced in 1970 and their beauty remains unseen by the public who handle the Notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public\u00a0Lecture \u00a0Lankan Banknotes from 1785 to\u00a0Modern\u201d by Dr Kavan Ratnatunga \u00a0On Monday 25th\u00a0February 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME Since the Dutch first introduced Paper currency for Ceylon in 1785 to modern currency issued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}