361, Lot: 572. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Native coinages. Polonnaruwa period. Lilavati. Queen, 1197-1200; 1209-1210; 1211. AV Kahavanu (20mm, 5.32 g, 5h). 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, five pellets in right. Cf. Mitchiner, Non-Islamic 838; Friedberg 1. EF, light roughness.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from D. Corrigan, 1974.

There are some tiny cracks around the edge that suggest the coin may be plated.