365, Lot: 498. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. 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, 4.42 g, 7h). “Lord of Sri Lanka,” king reclining to right, holding aloft aflower / King standing facing right, holding aloft double crescent; altar, flame, and pellets–in–annulets in fields. Cf. Mitchiner, Non-Islamic 825 (for type); Friedberg 1. Good VF, areas of weak strike, deposits in devices.