Ancient Ruhuna, Lanka
2nd Century BCE. - 2nd Century CE
Lady and Svastika - Clockwise

SPECIFICATIONS Alloy Cu-Pb? Type Cast ? Height 21.2 mm Width 8.0 mm Thickness 2.3 mm Weight 1.62 gms Shape Oblong DieAxis 0°
OBRW #37

Obverse : Within a raised rim, a Standing lady, with ear-rings clad in a broad girdle, With her hands she grasps two stalks ending about level of the shoulders in a small blossom.
Reverse : A Railed svastika revolving to right (Clockwise). Svastika mounted on a short staff on horizontal line base with four vertical lines rising from it, beneath are two horizontal lines. Above svastika trangular pennent pointing right,

Twenty Lakshmi and svastika lead coins (H.30 to H.49) with sizes 13 to 47 mm and weights from 0.5 to 16 grams that were found in Akurugoda are cataloged under Local Coins in 1999 by Osmund Bopearachchi and Rajah Wickramasinhe in the book Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilization Re-visited .
This coin is Plate Specimen H.44.

This is one variety of many coins of this type.

The coin was scanned at 600 dpi and displayed at 600 dpi. ex: Raja Wickramasinghe, it is from part of Lalith Raddella's collection I purchased in 2016 December.

Text edited from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
  Page 26-31 Chapter III - Appendix - Plaques - Pl 20 to Pl 25.
* Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilisation Re-visited by Bopearachchi and Wickramasinhe. 1999
  Page 91-93 Local coins - Lakshmi and Svastika - Pl H.30 to H.49.