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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 2145766, member: 44140&quot;]A week or so ago I had an Amazon gift card with about $25 on it. I looked at quite a few items and a few bigger book titles on my list and somehow decided that I didn&#039;t want or need those things at the moment. I then decided I would challenge my self to use only the gift card and no other funds to find something cool.</p><p>After about an hour of fruitless Author/Title/ISBN/Keyword punching, I stumbled upon a coin. Under closer examination the coin was not the usual reproduction or beatup LRB crap that tends to find its away to Amazon. This was a beautiful fairly high grade medieval coin of a type I didn&#039;t own for $25 shipped. Yes! Click, Click,Click and Click...mine.</p><p>I receive a message from a very nice female seller with an &quot;incredible&quot; name, thanking me for my purchase and informing me she would be including a free gift for my business, I&#039;m like..Fabulous. This was the only item listed from the seller at the time and so I responded with a thank you and an inquiry into more coins. The seller responded with a wealth descriptions of different coin types, rulers and kingdoms from $20 - $500. Some of which required &quot;Googling&quot; on my part. Again, I am thinking in my mind, Yes....then I finish reading and she tells me that she can only send 2 coins at a time due to postal issues. Again, I&#039;m like alright, I am not the only one...right guys.</p><p>7 days exactly the specimen is in my hands. I was surprised to see where the coin came from but I suppose it would be appropriate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>a quote from Codrington...</p><p><i>Pandita ParakramaBahu II (1236-1271), was born at Sirivardhanapura not far from Dambadeniya. His first act after his coronation was to bring the Tooth Relic and lodge it at the capital. He then turned his attention to the recovery of Polonnaruva from the Pandaya, and achieved this purpose by 1244. The rest of the reign according to the contemporary records was spent in pious works ; the king also held a convocation for the purpose of reforming the priesthood, whose discipline had been relaxed during the Pandaya occupation. After reigning thirty-three years he abdicated in favor of his eldest son VijayaBahu. Having attended to restorations at Anuradhapura, VijayaBahu sent for his father to Polonnaruwa, where he was crowned a second time. The Tooth Relic having been brought, Parakrama held his ninth ordination festival at Dahastota, and then returned to Dambadeniya, where he died in his thirty-fifth year.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I was really fascinated with the various wars and invasions fought over the relic of the Tooth of the Buddha. It somehow reminds me of the lord of the rings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Isle of Lanka(Ceylon, Sri Lanka)</p><p>Kingdom of Dambadeniya (North West Sri Lanka)</p><p>House of Siri Sanga Bo</p><p>Parakrambahu II AD 1236-1271</p><p>AE Massa 19 mm x 4.21 grams</p><p>Obverse:Traditional <i>Lankan</i> massa design of standing king.</p><p>The head consists of an irregular oblong, the right side being a vertical line, from which projects three horizontal stokes representing the nose, mouth and chin. The crown bulging outwards at the back. The two curved lines on either side of the legs slightly turned upwards at the end indicate a person wearing a &#039;dhoti&#039;, and standing on a lotus stalk with flower to the right. The forearm is bent sharply down; the hand grasps the hanging lamp. The right side elbow is curved down with the arm turned upwards holds a flower presumed to be a jasmine blossom. To the right are five dots or spheres. A rim of 40 to 43 beads.</p><p>Reverse : Traditional <i>Lankan</i> massa design of seated king. Head and crown as on obverse. Arm is raised upwards and the hand holds a conch shell. On right Devanagari legend <i>Sri Pa ra kra ma Ba hu</i></p><p>Ref: Ref. Codrington &#039;Ceylon Coins &amp; Currency,&#039; # 84 (Additional help from Lakdiva.com)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]411063[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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