| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | pence |
| Alloy | Tin |
| Width | 29.5 mm |
| Width | 33.2 mm |
| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
| Weight | 3.76 gms |
| Shape | Elliptical |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Lowsley #L43 Pridmore #P117 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Obverse : | Integer 5 above Two Capital letter F I | Highlight. The whole alphabet being employed. |
| Reverse : | blank | (except for incuse Mirror image of Stamp) |
Weight from Lowsley.
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 600 dpi images are displayed at 200 dpi.
I thank Shiran Cruse, Kandy, Sri Lanka, for the scans of this token from
his collection now with me.