A circulation standard commemorative coin with a face value of Rs. 20 was issued as one of the events organised to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. This coin can be used for payments in Sri Lanka.

The first coin was officially presented to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Governor of Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal at the Presidential Secretariat at a ceremony in the presence of  Prof. Chandrika N. Wijeyaratne, Vice-Chancellor, University of Colombo. The Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo or
‘the Colombo 

Medical School’ was established in 1870 by the then Governor Sir Hercule Robinson. The faculty is the second oldest Medical College in South Asia which served as the single pioneer centre in the field of medical education for more than a century in
Sri Lanka.