Travancore/Vanad Erattavalan rasi panam or viraraya fanam(panam)
Stylized lion (sardula) standing right, crescent and pellet above.
Stylistic Boar standing right similar to Hoysala fanam. The legs represented by the 3 rows, each of 4 dots.
This version of rasi/viraraya fanam is also called as Erattavalan Rasi(ഇരട്ടവാലന് രാശി). 1 Rasi = 2.5 Kaliyan panam or 10 chuckram. This is refered as Raja panam in Dutch records. Used for centuries till Marthanda Varma introduced Silver Chuckram in 927KE. Reference#: 23.2 (Beena Sarasan's book Traversing Travancore through the Ages on Coins). Convex surface.
Weight: 0.43g
Diameter: 8.5mm
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