366, Lot: 1060. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Native coinages. Period of the Chola Invasion. Circa 990-1070. AV Kahavanu (19mm, 4.41 g, 6h). King reclining to right, holding aloft a full blown lotus / King standing facing right, holding aloft a voided crescent; altar, flame, and pellets–in–annulets in fields. Cf. MNI 825 (king holding sankh shell on obv., lotus on rev.). VF.