SRI LANKA Coins
Rixdollar: History of the Ceylon and Colonial Trade Coin
Illustrated Specimen Details: British Ceylon Rixdollar Example Specimen: 1/192 Rixdollar, 1802 (British Ceylon) Iconography & Origin: This copper fractional coin was struck for British Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) at the S…
Massa: coin from Kingdom of Dambadeniya (Sri Lanka)
MASSA: COIN OF DAMBADENIYA Massa, 1273-1301: Kingdom of Dambadeniya (Sri Lanka) Kingdom of Dambadeniya — medieval kingdom in what is present-day Sri Lanka (1220-1345). Ruler: Bhuvanaikabahu I — King of Dambadeniya in the end of the 13th century. Th…
Stiver: coin of British Ceylon; 1/48 rixdollar
STIVER: COIN OF CEYLON 1 stiver, 1815: British Ceylon British Ceylon (officially British Settlements and Territories in the Island of Ceylon with its Dependencies from 1802 to 1833, then the Island of Ceylon and its Territories and Dependencies fro…