417, Lot: 543. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Native coinages. Period of the Chola Invasion. Rajaraja. 985-1014. AV Kahavanu (20mm, 4.32 g, 3h). Struck after circa 1001. Rajaraja reclining to right, holding aloft a sankh shell; to right, Sri/ Raja/ Raja in Devanagari / Rajaraja standing facing right, holding aloft a lotust; altar, flame, and pellets–in–annulets in fields. Mitchiner, South II 318; cf. Friedberg 285 (for continental issue). Good VF.