| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | 4½ pence |
| Alloy | AE |
| Diameter | 24.5 mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight | 4.14 gms |
| Shape | round |
| Edge | Milled |
| DieAxis | O° |
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| Lowsley #L10 Pridmore #41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obv. : | --.-- D.V.G. --.-- | (D. V. Gunaratne) between two lines with a dot in centre of each and within a beaded circle, inside raised rim. |
| Rev. : | 4D½ | within a beaded circle inside raised rim. |
It is an ornamental piece rather smaller than a halfpenny.
Reference
* Coins and Tokens
of Ceylon, Lieut. Col B. Lowsley, Num. Chron. Sr III Vol. XV, 1895.
* The Coins of British Commonwealth of Nations to the end of the
reign of George VI 1952
Part 2 - Asian Territories by F. Pridmore Spink & Son Ltd., 1965.
Tokens
The token was scanned at 600 dpi and the images are displayed at 250 dpi.
I thank Bob Lyall of UK, for the scans of this token from his collection.