The 70 year journey of currency issue and management / editors/authors, Shellomi H Gunawardena & WMK Weerakoon.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Gunawardena, Shellomi H., author, editor.

Weerakoon, W. M. K., author, editor.

Contributor:

Srī Laṅkā Maha Băṅkuva, publisher.

Rosengarten International Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Sri Lanka--History--20th century.

Money.

Money--Sri Lanka--History--21st century.

Monetary policy--Sri Lanka--History.

Monetary policy.

Coins, Sri Lankan.

Numismatics--Sri Lanka.

Numismatics.

Sri Lanka.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

Seventy year journey of currency issue and management

Place of Publication:

[Colombo] : Central Bank of Sri Lanka, 2021.

Summary:

The book titled 'The 70 Year Journey of Currency Issue and Management' has been released marking the Bank's 70th anniversary. The book contains seven chapters and two appendices. Gunawardena and Weerakoon have taken the readers through the historical evolution of currency in Sri Lanka from ancient times to date and how the legal structure for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to issue currencies was framed. Coins-based means of payment had been used in ancient Lanka which had been an important trading nation from very early times. Drawing on historical records, Gunawardena and Weerakoon have documented that the earliest coins found from Lanka had been those of Indian origin with different shapes, sizes, weights, but punched with common symbols and characters. They were called Puranas or Kahapanas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9789555754064

9555754063

OCLC:

1341989526