Ancient Lanka - 2nd to 1st century BCE
Elephant and Stylised Fish Symbol

A square Pandaya dynasty copper coin from 1-2 century BCE, with Elephant standing to right and Stylised Fish Symbol

SPECIFICATIONS
AlloyCu
TypeStruck
Width16.5 mm
Thickness1.7 mm
Weight2.48 gms
ShapeSquare
DieAxis-90°
 ele_fish_C6_cu_obverse ele_fish_C6_cu_reverse
Krishnamurthy & Wickramasinghe #4, #5
Obverse : Elephant standing facing right, with trunk pendent with few much smaller indistinct symbols above and to right.
Reverse : Stylised fish symbol pointing at a thick arc.

Codrington names the coins with stylised fish symbol the "Buddhist Cakram" Type. A Catalogue of The Sangam Age Pandaya and Chola Coins In the National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka by Ramasubbu Krishnamurthy & Senarath Wickramasinghe illustrates many coins with small symbols above elephant and one has fish with Arc (#34) which however has elephant to left.

The coin was scanned at 600dpi and displayed at 400dpi. ex: Raja Wickramasinghe, it is from part of Lalith Raddella's collection I purchased in 2016 December.

Text edited from
A Catalogue of The Sangam Age Pandaya and Chola Coins In the National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka by R. Krishnamurthy & Senarath Wickramasinghe. 2005 Department of National Museums, Colombo.