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5 Sho Silver Restrike

Features

Pretended issuer Tibet (China)
Type Fantasy coins
Year 21 (1947)
Calendar Tibetan (16th cycle)
Composition Silver
Weight 13.04 g
Diameter 29.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
565352
References X# 2
Krause Publications (publisher). Unusual World Coins. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States (5 volumes).

Obverse

Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash (three mountain peaks) with two suns in the background.

Reverse

Tibetan characters surrounded by more characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.

Script: Tibetan

Lettering:
དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ།
རབ་བྱུང་
༡༦ ལོ་༢༢
ཉོ་ལྔ།

Unabridged legend:
dga' ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal
rab byung
16 lo 22
zho lnga

Translation:
The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions
Cycle 16
year 22
5 Sho

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Valcambi, Balerna, Switzerland (1961-date)

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
21 (1947)  1 000 Proof

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