1 Sho

Issuer Tibet
Year 1932-1942
Type Standard circulation coin
Value 1 Sho (0.1)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Copper
Weight 4.79 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#23
Obverse description Snow lion facing left with sun above and scroll ornaments around, all surrounded four identical Buddhist auspicious symbols (an endless knot) and Tibetan characters.
Obverse script Tibetan
Obverse lettering དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ཕྱོ་ལས་རྣམ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
(Translation: Government house in Lhasa, Attributes karma and complete victory in all directions)
Reverse description Tibetan characters with cloud above and triratna (triple gem) below, all surrounded by flowers and Tibetan characters.
Reverse script Tibetan
Reverse lettering རབ་བྱུང་༡༦་ལོ་༡༡་ ཞོ་གང་
(Translation: Cycle 16 Year 11, One Sho)
Edge Reeded.
Mint
Mintage 6 (1932) - ༡༦ - ༦ (with `circle` mark) - 6 000 000
7 (1933) - ༡༦ - ༧ (with `circle` mark) -
8 (1934) - ༡༦ - ༨ (with `circle` mark) -
8 (1934) - ༡༦ - ༨ (with `drop` mark) -
9 (1935) - ༡༦ - ༩ (with `circle` mark; with bird on lion`s back) -
9 (1935) - ༡༦ - ༩ (with `circle` mark) -
9 (1935) - ༡༦ - ༩ (with `drop` mark) -
10 (1936) - ༡༦ - ༡༠ (with `circle` mark) -
10 (1936) - ༡༦ - ༡༠ (with `cross` mark) -
10 (1936) - ༡༦ - ༡༠ (with `drop` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `circle` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `cross` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `down arrow` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `drop` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `hook with point` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `hook` mark) -
11 (1937) - ༡༦ - ༡༡ (with `vertical line` mark) -
12 (1938) - ༡༦ - ༡༢ (with `cross` mark) -
12 (1938) - ༡༦ - ༡༢ (with `down arrow` mark) -
12 (1938) - ༡༦ - ༡༢ (with `hook with point` mark) -
12 (1938) - ༡༦ - ༡༢ (with `vertical line` mark) -
16 (1942) - ༡༦ - ༡༦ (with `hook with point` mark) -
Numisquare ID 2452139470
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