1 Massa - Sahassa Malla

Sahassa Malla ruled Polonnaruwa for roughly two years before being deposed and blinded by his successor Kalinga Magha's predecessors in the dynastic chaos that consumed the kingdom's final decades. His coinage is accordingly scarce, produced within an extremely compressed window as the Sinhalese kingdom entered the terminal instability that would culminate in the Chola-backed conquest of the early 13th century. Codrington's classification of this type acknowledges the attribution difficulties — die variation between Mitchiner's 840 and 841 can be subtle, and misattributions to neighboring reigns are not uncommon in older collections.