3 Srang

3 Srang - obverse3 Srang - reverse

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Features

Issuer Tibet (China)
Period Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 9-20 (1935-1946)
Calendar Tibetan (16th cycle)
Value 3 Srang
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Silver
Weight 12.50 g
Diameter 31 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
21437
References Y# 26,
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.
L&M# 658
Lin Gwo Ming, Ma Tak Wo; 2008. Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Gold & Silver Coins (7th edition). Tak Wo Numismatic, Hong Kong.

Obverse

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.

Script: Tibetan

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

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.

Script: Tibetan

Lettering: རབ་བྱུང་ བཅུ་དྲུག་ལོ་ ལོ་ བཅུ་ སྲང་ གསུམ་

Translation:
rab byung bcu drug lo bcu srang gsum
Cycle sixteen, Year 10, three Srang

Edge

Reeded.

Mint

Tapchi Electric Machine Factory (ཏྲབཤི་ལོཏར་ལེཁུང), Lhasa, Tibet, China (1932-1953)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
9 (1935)  Photo 21% བཅུ་དྲུག - དགུ
10 (1936)  Photo $ 44 $ 180 41% བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ
10 (1936)  8% བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ/དགུ (overdate)
11 (1937)  Photo 30% བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག
12 (1938)  10% བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུས
20 (1946)  6% བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (with dot after date)
20 (1946)  0% བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (without dot after date)

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 69
Lot 2510
Internet Archive
29 Oct 2022 9 (1935) – བཅུ་དྲུག - དགུ UNC USD 40.96
(EUR 38.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 69
Lot 2511
Internet Archive
29 Oct 2022 9 (1935) – བཅུ་དྲུག - དགུ XF USD 49.58
(EUR 46.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 SrangPicture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
The Coinhouse Auctions
Auction 20
Lot 1223
Internet Archive
8 May 2021 10 (1936) – བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ AU USD 194.01
(EUR 180.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 84
Lot 1941
Internet Archive
27 May 2023 11 (1937) – བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག XF USD 76.53
(EUR 71.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 79
Lot 2754
Internet Archive
21 Mar 2023 Undetermined AU USD 216.65
(EUR 201.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 63
Lot 3107
Internet Archive
26 Jul 2022 Undetermined AU USD 320.12
(EUR 297.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 98
Lot 1889
Internet Archive
14 Oct 2023 Undetermined XF USD 45.27
(EUR 42.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 3 Srang
Katz
Auction 61
Lot 307
Internet Archive
7 Jun 2022 Undetermined XF USD 54.97
(EUR 51.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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