`:::I'm not sure about the logic behind an article entitled ``Ceylonese pound``. I have just recently become involved with Wikipedia, after discovering some useful information in the excellent entries on Hungarian currency (banknotes). I am very confused about the principles being used for currency articles, and I cannot find any place where they are set out in detail for newcommers. To avoid confusion about what actual currency is being discussed, there really should really be an entry (article) ``Currency of Sri Lanka`` to provide an outline of, and links to, the currencies used on the island from their first appearence down to the present. Names and currencies change, but there is continuity.  :::The Public Treasury issued pound-denominated notes that circulated between 1827 and 1856. It seems that the initial emission (1827) was in denominations of 1, 2, and 5 pounds, and notes for 10, 20, and 25 appeared later.  The text on the £2 note read: ``CEYLON | The Bearer hereof is entitled to receive on demand TWO POUNDS at the General Treasury, in the Currency of this Island, at Colombo.” There were £87,400 in treasury notes outstanding on 1836-12-31, as follows: £1, 40 715 pieces; £2, 18 375 pieces; £5, 1274 pieces; £10, 213 pieces; £20, 38 pieces; and £25, 27 pieces.   :::I'm not sure what ``Ceylonese pound`` would, could, or should  mean; no pounds, shillings, or pence were ever minted on or for Ceylon . The treasury notes were for ``pounds`` - pounds as money of account, to be paid in local currency at Colombo. In practice, this meant rupees and annas. The legal tender was British silver. But local payments could be made in any coin or paper authorized to be current (i.e., authorized for circulation). In Ceylon after 1827, this meant the following coins (and their multiples and dividers): the British shilling, the local silver and paper rixdollars, the Spanish dollar, and the sicca, Bombay, and Madras rupees. The Company's rupee (Government rupee after 1862) became current in 1836 and quickly became the dominant coin on the island. Consequently, while accounts were kept in pounds-shillings-pence, trade was carried on in rupees.  :::Some outline, with Wikilinks, should be given somewhere even if only simplified and very general, for example:   Currency of Sri Lanka   1785-1796 Ryksdaalder   1796-1827 Rix Dollar   1827-1836 Pound of 20 Shillings   1836-1872 Pound of 10 Rupees or 20 Shillings   1872-     Rupee of 100 Cents     `