Description
Country or authority: British Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka)
Year or date range: 1802
Denomination: 1/192 rixdollar (ΒΌ stiver)
Composition: Copper
Ruler or portrait: George III; no royal portrait
Mint or mintmark: Soho Mint, England; no mintmark visible
Catalogue references: KM 73
Obverse description: Following the supplied photograph labels: elephant standing left, with tusks and lowered trunk, above a double ground line. Date 1802 below. Border of annulets between plain circles; no surrounding legend.
Reverse description: Central numeral 192 within a corded circle. Surrounding legend CEYLON GOVERNMENT, with a worn floral separator between GOVERNMENT and CEYLON at the top. Outer annulet border between plain circles.
