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<p>[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 4759188, member: 112342"]The Cholas were a Tamil empire, Kahavanu is a Sinhalese name given to the imperial Chola coins and the latter ones inspired from the Chola coins, however, the native Tamil name for these coins are called 'kasu', copper coins are called 'seppu-kasu' seppu meaning copper, silver ones as 'velli-kasu', and the gold kahavanus are called 'thanga or Pon - kasu'. One possible explanation for the lack of Chola gold in native Chola territory in India could be due to when the Cholas were defeated by Pandyas in 1279, all their gold would have been melted into Pandyan coins, and since there is no such evidence for Pandya gold coinages due to the fact that Pandyas had to pay off Muslim invaders in large sums which basically bankrupted them so much as to shifting their capital Madurai to a small village further South meant almost all of the gold coinage in the Tamil region were either melted/paid off during the span of 100 years. However, the Chola gold in Sri Lanka continued to be in use and thus are in high frequency for sale as the 'Sri Lankan Kahavanu'. Also, the word stater is only a modern term numismatists gave to these copper coins, the Cholas most definitely didn't call them staters nor Kahavanus, but Kasu. You can see how a native Tamil state calls its coins as kasu <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61547.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61547.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61547.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 4759188, member: 112342"]The Cholas were a Tamil empire, Kahavanu is a Sinhalese name given to the imperial Chola coins and the latter ones inspired from the Chola coins, however, the native Tamil name for these coins are called 'kasu', copper coins are called 'seppu-kasu' seppu meaning copper, silver ones as 'velli-kasu', and the gold kahavanus are called 'thanga or Pon - kasu'. One possible explanation for the lack of Chola gold in native Chola territory in India could be due to when the Cholas were defeated by Pandyas in 1279, all their gold would have been melted into Pandyan coins, and since there is no such evidence for Pandya gold coinages due to the fact that Pandyas had to pay off Muslim invaders in large sums which basically bankrupted them so much as to shifting their capital Madurai to a small village further South meant almost all of the gold coinage in the Tamil region were either melted/paid off during the span of 100 years. However, the Chola gold in Sri Lanka continued to be in use and thus are in high frequency for sale as the 'Sri Lankan Kahavanu'. Also, the word stater is only a modern term numismatists gave to these copper coins, the Cholas most definitely didn't call them staters nor Kahavanus, but Kasu. You can see how a native Tamil state calls its coins as kasu [URL]https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61547.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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