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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 4725874, member: 112342&quot;]Raja Raja Chola stater 985-1014 AD 4.3g, 16mm. Obv: Standing king blowing a conch, with a lamp to his left and a lotus, crescent and four pellets to his right, rev: seated king sniffing a lotus with the Nagari legend reading Raja Raja. He was the first king to extensively issue coins of this design, yet some say he copied from the Sri Lankan gold version. But I believe he was the first ruler to make coins of this design, as there has been no native coin of &#039;octopus man&#039; design ever founded dated before 985 in Sri Lanka, even their gold coins were minted under the control of Cholas! And also the Cholas who invaded and controlled Sri Lanka made their coins with crude design, now compared to the more refined Sri Lankan coins hints as to which came first.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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