| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | 48 Stiver |
| Alloy | Silver.833Ag |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | 19.2 mm |
| Thickness | 3.7 mm |
| Weight Legal | 9.05 gms |
| Weight | 9.2 gms |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Stuck |
| DieAxis | O° |
| Mint | Ceylon |
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| Pridmore #13; Mitchiner #2203; Krause #77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : Within a circle of dashes an elephant facing
left with a perspective ground. The year 1809 below a line.
Reverse : Within a circle of dashes CEYLONGOVERNMENT preceded
by a group of seven dots. The value in Stivers
48 ST at center within a bead
circle. No lines below the T.
This Elephant with the end of it's trunk bent and head held high and the seven dots in three lines with 2-3-2 are almost similar to the 1809 48St illustrated in Krause.
R. Nott reports eight varieties among (12) 1809 coins he has from the Lowsley collection. Pridmore Lists 3 varieties for 1809 (P#11-13), i.e. Seven dots with two, one and no (case shown above) lines below T.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 155 Chapter XI British - Coins struck in Ceylon. Plate 154.
The VF coin was scanned at 600dpi and the images are displayed at
300dpi. It was purchased on mail order in 2000 November from a US Dealer.
The obverse seems to have been cleaned by an inexperienced collector.
Cleaning was very popular for collectors in the old days.
See also a cast silver specimen which
at best can only be regarded as contemporary forgery.