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

SPECIFICATIONS Alloy Pb? Type Cast ? Height 34.6 mm Width 20.5 mm Thickness 3.5 mm Weight 11.43 gms Shape Oblong DieAxis 0°
OBRW# H.31

Obverse : Standing lady with ear-rings and bead neckless clad in a broad girdle and wearing five bracelets on each of the forearms; and on the legs below the knee three anklets. She stand on a large lotus and with her hands which are pendent, grasps two stalks of the same plant.
Reverse : A Railed svastika revolving to right (Clockwise). Svastika mounted on a staff on horizontal line base with four vertical lines rising from it, beneath are two horizontal lines. An Asana with Two lines above and below on left and a nandipada symbols on right of the staff.

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.31.

This is one variety of many coins of this type.

The coin was scanned at 600 dpi and displayed at 300 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.