Dragon with clouds around surrounded by Tibetan characters.
Obverse script
Tibetan
Obverse lettering
ཤོན་
ཐོང་ བོད་ཀྱི་རིན་ ཀྱི་ རིན་ ཁོར་ ཁུ་ ཕོན་ ཞོ་གང་ (Translation: shon thong bod kyi rin khor khu phon zho gang Xuantong / Precious coin of one Sho, (struck) to the Kuping Standard)
Reverse description
Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left with flower in the centre.
Reverse script
Chinese (traditional, regular
script)
Reverse lettering
宣
藏 通
統 (Translation: Xuan Tong Bao Cang Xuantong (Emperor) / Tibetan coin)