Definición

• i.e., Silver. A name used in Sin- halese literal lire to designate the hook- money. Tli is term, however, was probably applied to other silver money. before the in- troduction of the Larins. The term Ridi pahayi, i.e., five Ridis, is still used in re- mote districts in the sense of a Rix Dollar.

  Rhys Davids (sec. 73) states that no specimens of the Ridis have survived.

Fuente

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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