Ancient Lanka - Tree and Svastika

Twelve Compartments - Left

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

SPECIFICATIONS Alloy Cu-Pb? Type Cast ? Diameter 13.7 mm Thickness 1.7 mm Weight 1.02 gms Shape Round DieAxis O°
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Obverse : A four branched tree within enclosure of twelve compartments in three rows of four each. The end of branch which is visible splits into three.
Reverse : A Railed svastika revolving to left (anti-clockwise). Unidentified symbols to left and right.

This is one variety of many coins of this type.

The coin was scanned at 600dpi and displayed at 500dpi. It was obtained in November 1999 from a dealer in Galle, 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.