361, Lot: 571. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Native coinages. Period of the Chola Invasion. Circa 990-1070. AV Kahavanu (20mm, 4.37 g, 11h). King seated right, holding conch shell / Vishnu standing facing, head right, on lotus stem with bulb at right of base, holding flower; altar in left field, pellet and four annulets in right. Mitchiner, Non-Islamic 825; Friedberg 1. Good VF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Jess Peters, 1973.