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Auction: 23127 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 32: Indian and Islamic Coins Featuring the Klaus Bronny Collection of Bhutanese and Nepalese Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 9614

(x) Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Kingdom of Kandy (c. 1550-1765), silver Fanams (9), similar in design to Viraraya fanams of south India (cf. Codrington, p.175, 168), generally little circulated, extremely fine (9)

A Gentleman's Collection of Sri Lankan Coins - Part III

Codrington describes these as "Sinhala panama, struck by the king. The metal is silver, often very base, and sometimes hardly distinguishable from copper; a few show a slight admixture of gold, from which it may be inferred that this coin has been gradually debased from an original gold fanam, .... in documents they are mentioned last, as far as I can ascertain, in 1765. The design is that of the Malabar Vira raya fanam."

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