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I have a Cross Century ii that was given to me by late Grandfather. It looks like the typical Century ii just that there are some weird imprints on the cap. The normal matt black Century ii that I have has a plain matt black cap with "Cross Ireland" engraved above the golden band at the end of the cap as well as a golden clip. However, my Cross Century ii has all of that but with an added engraving saying "Bank of Ceylon, USD 100,000,000, 5th October 2000". Pictures of my pen is below, please help me solve this mystery as I have never seen my Grandfather and want to know more about him.

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I think it's just a regular Century II that someone had engraved for a a special occasion.

It seems that your grandfather had something to do with Bank of Ceylon. Did he ever work there?

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I think it's just a regular Century II that someone had engraved for a a special occasion.

It seems that your grandfather had something to do with Bank of Ceylon. Did he ever work there?

Actually, no. He was a member of the legislative council here in Hong Kong

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Must have been commemorative for a 100 million USD deal with the bank of Ceylon.on oct 5th 2000.

 

Sri Lanka (former Ceylon) was in the midst of a bloody civil war with the Tamil minority. That October month there were Elections to be held..

 

What I think, is that the US government gave a gift or loan for 100 million USD to the Bank of Ceylon on that day and they had commemorative pens made for the signing of the papers. Afterwards everyone involved got one of the pens as a memento.

I think it was a US deal because the US have been using Cross pens to sign official papers for a long time. Or it was a gift/loan from the HK government and they just followed the US lead in choice of the pen.

 

 

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