Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 234
China, issued for Tibet (1930-35), Sichuan Rupee, 11.01g, undated, countermark "5" in rectangular depression and "one" (Gabrisch and Bertsch, E and A. Wang Chun Li: "Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Gold & Silver Coins; 1791-1949" (Zhong guo jin yin bi mu lu), Zhong guo shang ye chu ban she (China Trade Publishing House), Beijing 2012, p. 200, no. WS0768), on type with small head with collar, flat nose, string of pearls below the collar is composed of 15 pearls, rev. vertical rosette, without leaf in northeast position (YZM -; KM -), about fine, countermark "one" rare
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