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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 14

Tibet, Qian Long (1735-96), 1-Sho, 3.49g, 61st year, 24 beads on both sides, date reads clockwise, starting at 9 o'clock near the rim: nian liu shi yi (year sixty-one), rev. Tibetan date reads clockwise, starting at 12 o'clock near the rim: dgu cu re gcig (sixty-one) (YZM 116; KM. C#72.2; LM 640A var), in PCGS holder, graded XF 45, very fine and very rare

Emperor Qian Long abdicated in favour of his son at the end of the 60th year of his reign. By the time the news about his abdication reached Lhasa, the mint had started to produce coins with the date 61 ((Rhodes, N. G.: "An Unpublished Sino-Tibetan Date". Numismatics International Bulletin, Vol. 9, no. 4, Dallas, April 1975, p. 101). )The rare Sino-Tibetan coins of Qian Long, 61st year, form the subject of the short story "Vagabond Spirit" by the Chinese author Ma Yuan (born in 1953). See Ma Yuan: Ballad of the Himalaya: stories of Tibet, translated by Herbert J. Batt, Merwin Asia Publishing, Portland, Me., 2011.
See also: http://merwinasia.com/Reviews/balad_of_the_himalayas_excerpts.php

Ex. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Spink, Hong Kong, 21 August 2013, lot 48


乾隆六十一年西藏銀幣,約3.49克, 24珠版, PCGS XF 45,罕見

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