Sri Lanka 1,000 Rupees Banknote, 2006, P-120d, UNC

The Sri Lanka 1,000 Rupees Banknote was issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 2006. The green banknote bears English, Sinhala, and Tamil texts. Its obverse features a lion holding a whip, a Sathdantha tusker elephant, carrying a relic in Esala Perahera (Festival of the Tooth), and an elephant with a mahout. The reverse is in a vertical orientation and bears lotus flowers, the Octagon building at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, and two peacocks. The banknote contains a red-to-green 3-mm StarChrome windowed security thread with SRI LANKA RS 1000 and a watermark that reveals a lion holding a whip with an electrotype sword; and Cornerstones. It is 157 x 78 mm in size and signed by Sunil Mendis and Mahinda Rajapaksa. This particular banknote is in uncirculated condition.