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Pridmore #15; Mitchiner #220_; Krause #76 |
Obverse : Within a circle of dashes
an elephant facing left with small bushes between his feet,
year 1804 below the ground line and between another line.
Reverse :Within a circle of dashes
CEYLONGOVERNMENT preceded by a group of four dots and sometimes divided by a dot. The value in Stivers 24 ST at center within a bead circle. Two lines below the T.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 155 Chapter XI British - Coins struck in Ceylon.
The coin was scanned at 600dpi and the images are displayed at 300dpi. It was purchased at the 1998 October PAN coin show in Pittsburgh.