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2. Kahavanu - Wikipedia

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   Kahavanu obverse. Kahavanu is a medieval currency from Sri Lanka.. This anonymous gold coinage appears to have been initiated shortly before Rajaraja Chola invaded Lanka in 990 AD, and struck through the period when the Cholas dominated the island (1017-1070), and continued by closely similar coins struck for Vijayabahu (1055-1110) after he re-established Sinhala independence in 1070.

3. Kandyan jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Even today Kandyan jewellery sets are auctioned off at the best auction houses in the United Kingdom and Europe with a throatlet and necklaces being valued at £5000 to £8000 and the entire sets being sold for prices ranging from £50,000 to £200,000 depending on the design and antiquity of the sets. In Sri Lanka these sets are available on a ...

4. Gold as an investment - Wikipedia

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   Gold as an investment. A Good Delivery bar, the standard for trade in the major international gold markets. Size of a 100 gram gold bar - packaged inside an assay for proof of authenticity - compared to a playing card. Of all the precious metals, gold is the most popular as an investment.

5. Gems of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Sri Lanka, geologically speaking is an extremely old country. Ninety percent of the rocks of the island are of Precambrian age, 560 million to 2,400 million years ago. The gems form in sedimentary residual gem deposits, eluvial deposits, metamorphic deposits, skarn and calcium-rich rocks. Nearly all the gem formations in Sri Lanka are located ...

6. Pre-modern coinage in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Gold and copper coins issued by the Chola ruler Rajaraja Chola (985-1014) are excavated from many parts of Sri Lanka. The obverse and reverse of these coins are similar to the common Dambadeniya Massa coins issued by later Kalinga and Pandya rulers of Sri Lanka.

7. J. R. Jayewardene - Wikipedia

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   A controversial figure in the history of Sri Lanka, while the open economic system he introduced in 1978 brought the country out of the economic turmoil Sri Lanka was facing as the result of the preceding closed economic policies, [2] Jayawardene's actions, including his response to the Black July riots of 1983, have been accused of ...