Ancient Lanka - Tree and Svastika

Eight Compartments - Left

A circular copper-lead coin with a Six branched tree within enclosure of Eight compartments on obverse and a railed svastika revolving to left (anticlockwise) on the reverse.

SPECIFICATIONS Alloy Cu-Pb? Type Cast ? Diameter 15.4 mm Thickness 1.8 mm Weight 1.9 gms Shape Round DieAxis O°
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Obverse : A six branched tree within enclosure of eight compartments in two rows of four each in a dotted circular border.
Reverse : A Railed svastika revolving to left (anti-clockwise) in a dotted circular border.

This is one variety of many coins of this type.

The coin was scanned at 600dpi and displayed at 400dpi. It was obtained in 2000 August from Rajah Wickremesinhe an Author and collector in Colombo, Lanka.

Text edited from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
  Page 22 Chapter III - Tree and Svastika - Pl 12 to Pl 15.
* Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilisation Re-visited by Bopearachchi and Wickramasinhe. 1999
  Page 27 Local coins - Tree and Svastika - Pl H.9 to H.17.