Tibet 1½ Srang, 10 – 20

Obverse Reverse

Information

Country Tibet Tibet
Currency Srang (1792 – 1959)
Coin type Standard circulation coin
Denomination 1½ Srang
Year 10 – 20
Ruler Ganden Phodrang (1642–1959)
Composition Silver
Shape Round
Alignment Medal alignment ↑↑
Technique Milled
Weight (g) 5
Diameter (mm) 24
Thickness (mm) 1.5
Demonetized Yes

Description

1½ Srang from Tibet. Issued from 10 to 20. Struck in Silver. Measures 24 mm and weighs 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 nyi shu srang 1/5
Cycle sixteen, Year twenty, 1-1/2 Srang)
Edge
Reeded.

Mintage & Variants

Date Mintage au Comment Frequency
20 (1946)  བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ 8%
12 (1938)  བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུས 18%
11 (1937)  € 70,00 བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག 42%
10 (1936)  བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ (coin rotation) 1.4%
10 (1936)  བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ (medal rotation) 56%

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