1 Tanga

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Scrittura del dritto	Latin
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Descrizione del rovescio	A gridiron, the attribute of Saint Lawrence, depicted centrally within a beaded inner circle, with vertical bars and a cross handle rising above the frame and decorative scrollwork below. The date numerals flanking the central device, reading 16 to the left and 40 to the right, indicate the year of issue. The entire design is enclosed within a prominent beaded border. The hammered flan shows typical irregularities consistent with hand-struck colonial Portuguese silver coinage of the period.
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Portuguese Ceylon's tanga coinage occupied an awkward monetary position — struck for a colonial trading post whose commercial language was already dominated by local Mughal and South Indian currency systems. The tanga denomination itself was borrowed from the existing monetary vocabulary of the Indian Ocean trade networks rather than imposed from Lisbon. KM#9 spans nearly two decades of production at Colombo, a range that almost certainly reflects multiple die pairs and subtle weight drift across the issue. No single mint master oversaw the full run.