Inscribed Lead Tokens/Coins from Ancient Ruhuna
discussed by Dr P. Pushparatnam

A selection from Raja Wickramasinghe's collection

Illustrated below is the collection of 7 Tokens/coins from RajaWicramasinghe's collection. LakdivaCollection was lucky to acquire them from leading collector Lalith Raddella in 2016 May. They had been sold to him independently before the remaining collection was sold around 2010.

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Including A26 I had got from RajaW many years ago LakdivaCollection now has Seven (in bold in list below) of the Eleven coins (A21, A37, A20, A17, A11, A25, A19, A12, A5, A3, A26) from OBRW mentioned by Dr P. Pushparatnam in his book Ancient Coins of Sri Lankan Tamil Rulers

Individual pages for each token is linked from the ID between the coin images.

Obverse OBRW
ID 		Reverse Line Drawing and comments
A3

A5

A17

Both sides of this coin used on the cover page of OBRW book.
A19

A20

A26

A37

Rev: Symbol on top excluded in OBRW line drawing.