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Original found in Jaffna in 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Recent Sold in Colombo in 2019 |
The middle specimen which was traded in Colombo 2014 December.
It is clearly from a different die with a much cruder representation
of the LTTE logo. The Thamil text is more clear.
By comparison with original, I suspect it is a post war replica made
for Sale as I have never seen the LTTE logo so poorly drawn by LTTE.
I got much lower resolution out of focus images of this coin with same
errors in 2013 October.
The Lower specimen is marked as 22kt and I got higher resolution
images in 2019 May.
2018 December 14th dated Tamil
Report on athirvu.com which when Google Translated says I quote
A person has been arrested for coating lead with gold and selling
it to a Jaffna trader for 23 lakh rupees, claiming that it was gold
buried by the LTTE. ... Social Media reports a Sinhala man making fake
coins like the LTTE's gold coins and has deceived many Tamil traders.