1 Sho Vertical Legend

Features

Issuer Tibet (China)
Period Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1-60 (1922-1928)
Calendar Tibetan (16th cycle)
Value 1 Sho (0.1)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Copper
Weight 4.34 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness 1.3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
27779
References Y# 21a
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 with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded by Tibetan characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.

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

Tibetan characters surrounded by arabesques and more characters.

Script: Tibetan

Lettering:
རབ་བྱུང་ ༡༥་ ལོ་ ༦༠་
ཞོ་
གར

Translation:
rab byung 15 lo 60 / zho gang
Cylce 15, Year 60 / One Sho

Edge

Smooth.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
56 (1922)  Photo $ 7.90 $ 11 31% ༡༥ - ༥༦
57 (1923)  $ 6.90 13% ༡༥ - ༥༧
57 (1923)  2% ༥༧ - ༡༥ (transposed Cycle/Year)
58 (1924)  $ 8.20 10% ༡༥ - ༥༨
59 (1925)  $ 5.10 11% ༡༥ - ༥༩
59 (1925)  3% ༡༥ - ༥༩/༨ (overdate)
60 (1926)  $ 4.20 12% ༡༥ - ༦༠
60 (1926)  5% ༡༥ - ༦༠/༥༩ (overdate)
1 (1927)  4% ༡༦ - ༡ (with dot below "rab")
1 (1927)  $ 4.30 $ 5.40 14% ༡༦ - ༡ (without dot below "rab")
2 (1928)  $ 3.50 20% ༡༦ - ༢

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 1 Sho (Vertical Legend)
Katz
Auction 63
Lot 3104
Internet Archive
26 Jul 2022 56 (1922) – ༡༥ - ༥༦ XF USD 11.90
(EUR 11.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 1 Sho (Vertical Legend)
Katz
Auction 101
Lot 1920
Internet Archive
18 Nov 2023 Undetermined XF USD 9.74
(EUR 9.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 1 Sho (Vertical Legend)
Katz
Auction 98
Lot 1880
Internet Archive
14 Oct 2023 Undetermined XF USD 8.65
(EUR 8.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 1 Sho (Vertical Legend)
Katz
Auction 86
Lot 2087
Internet Archive
10 Jun 2023 Undetermined XF USD 7.57
(EUR 7.00)
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