Tibet 3 Srang, 9 – 20
Information
Country
Tibet
Tibet
Currency
Srang
(1792 – 1959)
Coin type
Standard circulation coin
Denomination
3 Srang
Year
9 – 20
Ruler
Ganden Phodrang
(1642–1959)
Composition
Silver
Shape
Round
Alignment
Medal alignment ↑↑
Technique
Milled
Weight (g)
12.5
Diameter (mm)
31
Demonetized
Yes
Description
3 Srang from Tibet. Issued from 9 to 20. Struck in Silver. Measures 31 mm and weighs 12.5 g.
- Obverse
- Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash with two suns in the background, all surrounded four Buddhist auspicious symbols (a white parasol, a conch shell, a pair of golden fish, and an endless knot) and Tibetan characters. (dga' ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions)
- Reverse
- Treasure vase (a Buddhist auspicious symbol) containing foliage with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded three Buddhist auspicious symbols (a victory banner, a dharma wheel, and a lotus flower) and Tibetan characters. (rab byung bcu drug lo bcu srang gsum Cycle sixteen, Year 10, three Srang)
- Edge
- Reeded.
Mintage & Variants
| Date | Mintage | xf | au | Comment | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 (1946) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (with dot after date) | 7% | |
| 20 (1946) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (without dot after date) | 0.9% | |
| 12 (1938) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུས | 11% | |
| 11 (1937) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག | 31% | |
| 10 (1936) | — | € 45,00 | € 180,00 | བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ | 42% | |
| 10 (1936) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ/དགུ (overdate) | 9% | |
| 9 (1935) | — | — | — | བཅུ་དྲུག - དགུ | 21% |
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