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5 Cents - Elizabeth II Trial Strike
| Issuer | Ceylon (1597-1972) |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Weight | 0.98 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Coat of Arms of Ceylon, depicting a lion passant holding a sword within a stylised sun-rayed roundel, surmounted by a dharma chakra and flanked by petals. A decorative ribbon scroll at the base bears the country name in three scripts — Tamil, Sinhala, and Latin — reading 'CEYLON'. The word 'TRIAL' appears vertically along the right inner edge of the square flan. The overall design is struck on a square flan with rounded corners, with a plain raised rim framing the composition. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Sinhala/Tamil |
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Ceylon's transition to decimal coinage in 1963 left nearly a decade of design and composition experimentation in its wake. This aluminium trial strike from 1971 sits just one year before the island's transformation into the Republic of Sri Lanka, a constitutional shift that rendered the entire Ceylon coinage series obsolete almost immediately after pieces like this were being tested.