Tibet 1 Sho, 1 – 60

Horizontal legend; small size

Obverse Reverse

Information

Country Tibet Tibet
Currency Srang (1792 – 1959)
Coin type Standard circulation coin
Denomination 1 Sho
Year 1 – 60
Ruler Ganden Phodrang (1642–1959)
Composition Copper
Shape Round
Alignment Medal alignment ↑↑
Technique Milled
Weight (g) 4.75
Diameter (mm) 25
Thickness (mm) 1.3
Demonetized Yes

Description

1 Sho from Tibet. Issued from 1 to 60. Struck in Copper. Measures 25 mm and weighs 4.75 g.

Obverse
Snow lion facing left with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded by Tibetan characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus. (dga' ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal
The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions)
Reverse
Tibetan characters surrounded by arabesques and more characters. (rab byung 15 lo 55 / zho gang
Cylce 15, Year 55 / One Sho)
Edge
Smooth.

Mintage & Variants

Date Mintage f vf xf Comment Frequency
2 (1928)  Y#21.1a: ༡༦ - ༢ (without dots in arabesquese; retrograde "2") 2%
2 (1928)  € 3,90 Y#21.1a: ༡༦ - ༢ (without dots in arabesquese) 6%
2 (1928)  Y#21.2: ༡༦ - ༢ (with dots in arabesquese) 8%
2 (1928)  Y#21.2: ༡༦ - ༢/༡ (with dots in arabesquese; overdate) 0.3%
1 (1927)  € 5,40 Y#21.1a: ༡༦ - ༡ (without dots in arabesquese) 7%
1 (1927)  Y#21.2: ༡༦ - ༡ (with dots in arabesquese; with dot below "rab") 1%
1 (1927)  Y#21.2: ༡༦ - ༡ (with dots in arabesquese; without dot below "rab") 1.8%
1 (1927)  Y#21.2: ༡༦/༡༥ - ༡/༦༠ (with dots in arabesquese; overdate) 4%
60 (1926)  € 5,60 Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༦༠ (without dots in arabesquese) 4%
60 (1926)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༦ (with dots in arabesquese; error date) 1.5%
60 (1926)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༦༠ (with dots in arabesquese) 6%
59 (1925)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༩ (without dots in arabesquese; with dots in obverse angles) 4%
59 (1925)  Y#21.1b: ༡༥ - ༥༩ (without dots in arabesquese; without dots in obverse angles) 1.2%
59 (1925)  € 4,70 Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༩ (with dots in reverse arabesques) 4%
58 (1924)  € 4,40 Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༨ (without dots in arabesquese; with dots in obverse angles) 11%
58 (1924)  Y#21.1b: ༡༥ - ༥༨ (without dots in arabesquese; without dots in obverse angles) 1.2%
58 (1924)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༨ (with dots in reverse arabesques) 5%
58 (1924)  Y#21.2: ༥༨ - ༡༥ (with dots in reverse arabesques; transposed Cycle/Year) 1.5%
57 (1923)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༧ (without dots in arabesquese; with dots in obverse angles) 1.2%
57 (1923)  Y#21.1b: ༡༥ - ༥༦ (without dots in arabesquese; without dots in obverse angles) 1.3%
57 (1923)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༦ (with dots in reverse arabesques) 4%
57 (1923)  Y#21.2: ༥༦ - ༡༥ (with dots in reverse arabesques; transposed Cycle/Year) 0.6%
56 (1922)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༦ (without dots in arabesquese) 5%
56 (1922)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༦ (with dots in arabesquese) 8%
56 (1922)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༦/༥༥ (with dots in arabesquese; overdate) 3%
55 (1921)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༥ (without dots in arabesquese) 5%
55 (1921)  € 5,40 € 6,30 € 7,30 Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༥ (with dots in arabesquese) 17%
55 (1921)  Y#21.2: ༥༥ - ༡༥ (with dots in arabesquese; transposed Cycle/Year) 3%
54 (1920)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༤ (without dots in arabesquese) 7%
54 (1920)  Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༤ (with dots in arabesquese; retrograde Year) 0.9%
54 (1920)  € 5,80 Y#21.2: ༡༥ - ༥༤ (with dots in arabesquese) 5%
54 (1920)  Y#21.2: ༥༡ - ༡༥ (with dots in arabesquese; error date) 5%
54 (1920)  Y#21.2: ༥༡ - ༥༤ (with dots in arabesquese; error date) 0.9%
54 (1920)  Y#21.2: ༥༤ - ༡༥ (with dots in arabesquese; transposed Cycle/Year) 4%
53 (1919)  Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༣ (with dots in obverse angles) 6%
53 (1919)  Y#21.1b: ༡༥ - ༥༣ (without dots in obverse angles) 5%
52 (1918)  € 5,40 € 8,00 Y#21.1a: ༡༥ - ༥༢ 10%

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