1 Sho - In the name of Qianlong, 1735-1796

€17,137.00
IssuerTibet
Year1793-1796
TypeStandard circulation coin
Value1 Sho (0.1)
CurrencySrang (1792-1959)
CompositionSilver
Weight3.72 g
Dimensions27 mm
Thickness
Shape and TechniqueRound
OrientationMedal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) C#72, L&M#637, Kann#1461, Hsu#512
Obverse descriptionFour Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left with clouds at the corners, all with more ideograms around (indicating the year).
Obverse scriptChinese (traditional, regular script)
Obverse lettering  五   乾 年藏 寶十   隆   九
(Translation: Qian Long Bao Cang / Nian Wu Shi Jiu Qianlong (Emperor) / Tibetan coin / Year 59)
Reverse descriptionTibetan characters read top to bottom, right to left with clouds at the corners, all with more characters around (indicating the year).
Reverse scriptTibetan
Reverse letteringལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ དགུ་ ཆན གཙང - པའུ ལུང
(Translation: cha`n lung pa`u gtsang / lnga bcu nga dgu Qianlong (Emperor) / Tibetan coin / Fifty nine (year))
EdgeSmooth.
Mint
Mintage58 (1793)  - C#72: 年五十八 / ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ བརྒྱད་ (26-27 mm) -
58 (1793)  - C#72.1: 年五十八 / ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ བརྒྱད་ (23-24 mm) -
59 (1794)  - C#72: 年五十九 / ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ དགུ་ -
60 (1795)  - C#72: 五六十 / དགུ་ ཅུ་ ཐམ་པ་ (26-27 mm) -
60 (1795)  - C#72.2: 五六十 / དགུ་ ཅུ་ ཐམ་པ་ (27-30 mm) -
61 (1796)  - C#72.2: 五六十一 / དགུ་ ཅུ་ རེ་གཅིག་ -
Catalog ID6876215650
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