5 Sho Moon and sun

Features

Issuer Tibet (China)
Period Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 23-27 (1949-1953)
Calendar Tibetan (16th cycle)
Value 5 Sho (0.5)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Copper
Weight 8.70 g
Diameter 29 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
19094
References Y# 28a
Richard S. Yeoman, Arthur L. Friedberg; 2007. A Catalog of Modern World Coins : 1850-1964 (14th edition). Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, United States.
And 1 more volumes.

Obverse

Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash (three mountain peaks) with moon and sun 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་༢༦
ཉོ་ལྔ།

Translation:
dga' ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal / rab byung / 16 lo 26 / zho lnga
The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions / Cycle 16, year 26, 5 Sho

Edge

Reeded.

Comments

A documentation showing the different dot varieties:


Showing the moon over the sun imprint

See also

Manage my collection

Please sign in or create an account to manage your collection.

Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
23 (1949)  Photo $ 8.40 $ 25 29% ༡༦ - ༢༣ (dots at position A and B)
24 (1950)  7% ༡༦ - ༢༤ (dots at position A and B; with cloud merged with mountain)
24 (1950)  10% ༡༦ - ༢༤ (dots at position A and B; with moon cut over sun)
24 (1950)  12% ༡༦ - ༢༤ (dots at position A and B)
24 (1950)  $ 8.20 18% ༡༦ - ༢༤ (dots at position B)
24 (1950)  0% ༡༦ - ༢༤/༢༣ (overdate; dots at position A and B)
25 (1951)  6% ༡༦ - ༢༥ (dot at position A)
25 (1951)  3% ༡༦ - ༢༥ (dots at position A and B; with moon cut over sun)
25 (1951)  7% ༡༦ - ༢༥ (dots at position A and B)
25 (1951)  13% ༡༦ - ༢༥/༢༤ (overdate; dots at position A and B)
26 (1952)  6% ༡༦ - ༢༦ (dots at position A and B)
26 (1952)  5% ༡༦ - ༢༦ (dots at position A)
27 (1953)  1.7% ༡༦ - ༢༧ (dot at position A and B)
27 (1953)  5% ༡༦ - ༢༧ (dots at position A)
27 (1953)  8% ༡༦ - ༢༧ (without dots)

Values in the table above are expressed in USD. They are based on evaluations by Numista users and sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only; they are not intended to be relied upon for buying, selling or exchanging. Numista does not buy or sell coins or banknotes.

Frequencies show the percentage of Numista users who own each year or variety among all the users who own this coin. Since some users own several versions, the sum may be greater than 100%.

Get this coin

Members from this site want to exchange it: Andrey78, Chasinva69

Feedback: 5/55/55/55/55/5 (×761)
Languages: English French
Feedback: 5/55/55/55/55/5 (×13)
Country: United States
Languages: English

» See the details of the coins available for swap

Numista Rarity index: 29 Search tips
This index is based on the data of Numista members collections. It ranges from 0 to 100, 0 meaning a very common coin or banknote and 100 meaning a rare coin or banknote among Numista members.

Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 5 Sho (Moon and sun)
Katz
Auction 98
Lot 1892
Internet Archive
14 Oct 2023 23 (1949) – ༡༦ - ༢༣ (dots at position A and B) XF USD 29.20
(EUR 27.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 5 Sho (Moon and sun)
Katz
Auction 61
Lot 308
Internet Archive
7 Jun 2022 23 (1949) – ༡༦ - ༢༣ (dots at position A and B) XF USD 24.88
(EUR 23.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 5 Sho (Moon and sun)
Katz
Auction 103
Lot 1965
Internet Archive
9 Dec 2023 Undetermined XF USD 8.65
(EUR 8.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
See the sales

Contribute to the catalogue

Modify or add data on this page
Register a past auction sale
Register an example of this type
Duplicate this page
Share: Facebook X (Twitter)