11/2 Srang

Issuer Tibet
Year 1936-1946
Type Standard circulation coin
Value 11/2 Srang (3⁄2)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Silver
Weight 5.00 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#24, L&M#660
Obverse description Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash with two suns in the background, all surrounded four Buddhist auspicious symbols (a white parasol, a conch shell, a pair of golden fish, and an endless knot) and Tibetan characters.
Obverse script Tibetan
Obverse lettering དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ
(Translation: dga` ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions)
Reverse description Treasure vase (a Buddhist auspicious symbol) containing foliage with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded three Buddhist auspicious symbols (a victory banner, a dharma wheel, and a lotus flower) and Tibetan characters.
Reverse script Tibetan
Reverse lettering རབ་བྱུང་ བཅུ་དྲུག་ལོ་ ལོ་ ཉིཤུ་ སྲང་ ༡༥
(Translation: rab byung bcu drug lo nyi shu srang 1/5 Cycle sixteen, Year twenty, 1-1/2 Srang)
Edge Reeded.
Mint
Mintage 10 (1936) - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ (coin rotation) -
10 (1936) - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ (medal rotation) -
11 (1937) - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག -
12 (1938) - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུས -
20 (1946) - བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ -
Numisquare ID 9051312190
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