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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 248

China, issued for Tibet (1902-1911), Sichuan Rupee, 11.56 g, undated, two countermarks in Tibetan which are not punched but engraved, certainly modern addition, produced with a fairly crude chisel, that to the left of the portrait can be read as bod ("Tibet"), on coin type with small head without collar, rev. horizontal rosette (YZM 445-447; KM 3.1 for coin type without countermark), very fine and scarce

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