1 / 86

Rix Dollar Currency Notes of Ceylon

http://coins.lakdiva.org Sri Lanka Numismatic Society. Rix Dollar Currency Notes of Ceylon. By Dr Kavan Ratnatunga. 2017 October 15 th. Dutch Ceylon Kredit Brief.

zion
Download Presentation

Rix Dollar Currency Notes of Ceylon

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. http://coins.lakdiva.org Sri Lanka Numismatic Society Rix Dollar Currency Notes of Ceylon By Dr Kavan Ratnatunga 2017 October 15th

  2. Dutch Ceylon Kredit Brief

  3. In 1785 Governor Vandergraff, took over Ceylon from Governor Falckt. He found the revenues of the island inadequate to the expenses; and the Treasury exhausted by additional number of troops, which the Company had been under the necessity of raising, since the year 1780, for the protection of the colony. To obviate these difficulties, he, resolved on 1785 March 19th to issue Ceylon's first Paper Money.

  4. Ceylon’s First Currency Note Dated 1785 May 10th, 25,000 Rix-Dollars called Kredit Brief of the denominations 50, 100, 500, 1000 Ryxds, were issued. They were signed by the  Hoofd AdministrateurSluysken and the acting Negotie BoekhouderRaket and counter signed by Secretary Billing They were cancelled 1787 April 5th.

  5. Detailed breakdown of 14 issue dates in Colombo between 1785-1792 (5-1000 Ryxd), 1 issue date in Trincomalee from 1788 (25-100 Ryxd) and 2 issue dates in Batticaloa between 1789-1789 (5-200 Ryxd) with known recorded quantities of each issued denomination are given in page 143 of Codrington's CCC.

  6. In 1793 certain Kredit Brievenwere found to have been falsified by alteration of the figures. On 1793 December 17 all Kredit Brieven issued before 1792 September 1st were recalled and exchanged for new notes and copper coins.

  7. I don't know of any images of these older Kredit Brief notes, which have been published. They were probably all recalled and destroyed.

  8. A 1000 Rix Dollar Kredit Brief Note Issued 1794 January 18 in Colombo. Endorsed by the British Authority. Interest Payments to 1809 are recorded. B. W. Fernando’s book

  9. A 5 Rix Dollar Kredit Brief Note Issued 1795 September 17th in Colombo. Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Tried to see on 2016 November 2nd

  10. 2017 Sept 28th Spink London Auction Lot 12971795 5 Ryxd Kredit BriefEstimate 20,000 to 25,000 Passed at 19,000 pounds. (About lkRs 5 M with 20% premium )

  11. A 5 Rix Dollar Kredit Brief Note Issued 1795 September 17 in Colombo. Endorsed by the British Authority. Interest Payments to 1912 are recorded.

  12. Goed voor Ryksdaalders5Zegge VYF Ryksdaalders.WY ondergetekende Certificeeren, dat Thoonder deezes, by de Compagnie te goet heeft Vyf Ryksdaalders van 48 zwaare Stuyvers, Indifch-Geld. voor welkers waerde dees Kreditbrief overal ten deezen Eilande gangbaar zal gehouden worden

  13. ඉලක්කම පතාග පහකට හොදයි ෴මෙක පෙනනන අයගෙ: ඊන්දියාවෙ මුදල්වු පතාගයට ඉස්තිබ්‍රි හතලිස් අටගනනේ පතාග දහක් කොම්පඤෙඤ්වෙත තිබෙනබව මෙහි පහල අතහන්කල අපි එලිදරවු කරනවායැ. එ වෙනිගනනට මෙ විස්වාසකෙරිමෙ ලිවුම මෙ දිවයිනේ සැමතැනම වලගුවෙනඩ යෙදේයැ.

  14. Please Help If you can type Thamil in Unicode.Thanks.

  15. KOLUMBO den 17. SEPTEMBER Anno 1795. The manuscript signatures of C, van AngelbeekHoofd AdministrateurT. G. HoflandNegotie Boekhouder

  16. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten

  17. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 2 Ryxds

  18. By Plakaat of 1795 December 18th Notice was given to issue Paper Money of the denominations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 Rix-Dollars. The proclamation rehearses that owing to the threatened investment of Colombo by the British doubts had arisen among the populace about the ability of the Government to redeem the Kredit Brieven and reassures them on this issue.

  19. In 1924 H. W. Codrington in his monograph Ceylon Coins and Currency describes the two Ryxds note in the Colombo Museum. Descriptiondoes not include the Endorse-ment in English and the Signature at the back

  20. In 2012 when I investigated the Coins and Currency collection of the Colombo National Museum to provide a Report to the CID after the 2012 March Burglary, I saw these notes for the First time, as they were not on display. The 2 Ryxds Kas Nootenexplicitly described by HWC was sadly missing from the Colombo National Museum Currency collection.

  21. 3 pCent per annum on this Kredit Brief payable by the British Government of Ceylon under the condition of the Sixth article of the Capitulation of Columbo.

  22. Signature Geo Gregory  Reg? George Gregory was Collector for Colombo

  23. Black rectangular Seal with Arabic text in middle

  24. Oldest Endorsement which says  Interest Paid from 15th February to 15th August 1796. This Inerest at 3% per annum would have been 3.6 Stuivers for 6 months.

  25. The back of the 1795 Kredit Brief that went on Auction at Spink in September 2017

  26. The back of the 1795 Kredit Brief that went on Auction at Spink in September 2017

  27. The back of the 1795 Kredit Brief that went on Auction at Spink in September 2017

  28. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 1 Ryxds

  29. The Hand Stamps on Kas Nooten

  30. 178Z - Dutch - VOC - One DuitDove on mango tree -> Colombo • Diameter 19.8 mm Thickness 8.0 mm • Weight  16.72 gms Tin dump coin

  31. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 3 Ryxds

  32. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 4 Ryxds

  33. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 5 Ryxds

  34. Dutch Ceylon 1796 Kolumbo Kas Nooten • Good For 10 Ryxds

  35. 1814 1 Rix Dollar

  36. No#### Colombo1 September1814.The Government of Ceylon promise to pay to the Bearer on demand the Sum of ONERix Dollar in Copper Money at the Exchange of Forty Eight Stivers for the Rix Dollar on presenting this at the General TreasuryRIX ONEDOLLARCOLOMBO September 1814 NoExd& EntdOne handsigned and One handstamped signature.

  37. Sinhala Text: • Top left Horizontal පතාග එකයිand Upper left Vertical ලන්කවේ(sic)ආන්ඩුව Tamil Text: Top right Horizontal ... and Upper right Vertical ...

  38. 1820 2 Rix Dollar

  39. Sinhala Text: Top left Horizontal ලංකවේ ආන්ඩුව කස්බ්‍රිප්පුව AboveTWOදෙකයි AboveRix Dollarපතාග • Tamil Text: Top right Horizontal ... Below TWO... Below Rix Dollar... 

  40. 1820 2 Rix Dollar with Dry Stamp

  41. 1820 2 Rix Dollar with Dry Stamp

  42. Dry StampCEYLONGOVERNMENT2 R SDIEU ET MON DROITGod and My Right

  43. 1821 : CeylonGeorgius IV - Silver Rix Dollar • Diameter 26.8 mm Thickness 1.8 mm • Weight  8.98 gms 0.892 Silver

  44. http://notes.lakdiva.org/ The notes illustrated in this talk and many other images from Internet of Notes that circulated in Lanka are described in detail in Internet web-site maintained by me. They have been scanned at 300 dpi or higher and displayed on this website. .

  45. Madras Presidency • The Maritime Provinces of Ceylon were attached to the Madras Presidency and administered by the East India Company through military governors. • The first was Colonel (later Major-General) Steuart; his successors were Major General W. E. Doyle, who governed for a few months from January 1, 1797, and Brigadier-General de Meuron. • Their jurisdiction was both civil and military. • The Madras administration proved a failure.

More Related