{"id":56757,"date":"2016-07-19T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56757"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:46:17","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-monthly-lecture-on-two-millennia-of-coins-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/19\/royal-asiatic-society-monthly-lecture-on-two-millennia-of-coins-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society Monthly Lecture on Two millennia of coins in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\">Royal Asiatic Society Monthly Lecture on\u00a0Two millennia of coins in Sri Lanka<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">by\u00a0Siri Munasinghe,\u00a0Numismatic Society on Monday 25th July at the Mahaveli Auditorium, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. All are welcome.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">The presentation is based on descriptions\u00a0on coins found in the old manuscripts and rock inscriptions of Sri Lanka. An effort will be made to place these coins in a chronological order. The messages embedded in the symbols and the legend inscribed on the coins will be discussed. The instructions for craftsmen who manufactured the coins are found in the text Vajyatantra.\u00a0 Over seventy five types of coins issued during the two millennia ending with the 15<sup>th<\/sup>century Kotte period will be shown.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society Monthly Lecture on\u00a0Two millennia of coins in Sri Lanka by\u00a0Siri Munasinghe,\u00a0Numismatic Society on Monday 25th July at the Mahaveli Auditorium, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. All are welcome.\u00a0 The presentation is based on descriptions\u00a0on coins found in the old manuscripts and rock inscriptions of Sri Lanka. An effort will be made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}