| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | 1/12 RixDollar |
| Alloy | Copper |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | 28.0 mm |
| Thickness | 6.0 mm |
| Weight Legal | 36.27 gms |
| Weight | 25.20 gms |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Dump |
| Die Axis | 180° |
| Mint | Forgery |
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| Pridmore #40; Mitchiner #220_; Krause #65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : Within a beaded circle between two plain circles
an elephant facing left. The year 1813 below
Reverse : Within a beaded circle between two plain circle
:CEYLO:NGOVERNMENT
The fraction of value to Rix Dollar 12 at center.
Note that all three N are mirror in this forgery and the : is between the O:N rather than a . after CEYLON.
This coin is 30.5% under weight and maybe at best a contemporary forgery.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 156 Chapter XI British - Coins struck in Ceylon. Plate 157.
The F grade forgery was scanned at 300 dpi and the images are displayed at 200 dpi. It was kindly gifted to me in 2002 December by Samuel Lopresto, a dealer in USA-CA from whom I purchsed two genuine Elephant dumps including the VG+ grade 1812 dump of same type.