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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 52

Tibetan Government, Anonymous (A-group, c. 1840-50), Gaden Tangkas (2), 5.37g, 5.27g, Dod-pal mint, undated, the first with three straight stalks of lotus, the second with lotus stems curved right, rev, hollow buds (what Rhodes describes as "buds" are the final round parts of what we consider as spokes of a wheel) (Rhodes Ai; KM. A 13.1, the second coin the plate specimen of the well known early publication on Tibetan coins:
Walsh, Ernest Herbert Cooper: "The Coinage of Tibet". Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. II, no. 2, Calcutta 1907, p. 11-23), good fine to very fine (2)

The coins of Group A have the obverse with three beads between the outer part of the eight petals and the reverse with small arches between the outer part of the petals. There is no water line below the lotus on obverse.

The Dod-pal mint was located below the Potala (winter residence of the Dalai Lamas).


西藏Gaden唐卡一組兩枚，分別約重5.37克及5.27克，GF-VF

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