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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 431

Tibetan Government, Anonymous, 10-Srang, 15.97g, DugÖ Lekhung, T.E.16-24 (1950), snow lion facing left in centre with mount Kailash behind with two suns above, ornaments and two tufts of grass below, surrounded by a circle to which eight lotus petals panels are attached, each containing one syllable of the legend dga' ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal ("the Ganden Palace, victorious in all directions"), rev. date and denomination in the centre in three lines: rab byung bcu/drug lo nyer bzhi/dngul srang bcu ("cycle sixteen, year twenty-four, ten silver Srang"), without a dot after bzhi (four) at the end of the second line, this surrounded by a circle to which eight lotus petal panels are attached, each containing one syllable of the legend: 'du 'dgod bde skyid 'dod rgu 'khyil ba (affairs, happiness, objects of desire, turning around) (YZM 527; KM. Y#30; LM 661), in PCGS slab, extremely fine

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