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1 Sho - In the name of Jiaqing, 1796-1820 With clouds, six characters
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1803 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays an intricate arrangement of Tibetan script characters forming the legend བཅའ་འཆིན་པ་འུ་གཙང་ / བརྒྱད་པ་ (Jiaqing's Tibetan Treasure / Eighth Year), rendered in the traditional Uchen script with ornate cloud-like decorative flourishes interwoven between the characters. The design is enclosed within a plain inner circle and surrounded by a uniform beaded border of pellets, mirroring the obverse border treatment. The overall artistic style is characteristic of the hammered Lhasa Mint coinage of the early nineteenth century. |
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Tibet's coinage during this period was struck under a dual-authority arrangement formalized after the Gurkha invasions of 1788 and 1791, when Qing military intervention gave Beijing considerably more leverage over Lhasa's affairs. The 1793 reforms imposed by the Qing required Tibetan coins to carry the Jiaqing reign title, embedding imperial nomenclature into local currency whether the Kashag government welcomed it or not. Production was handled by Tibetan moneyers, which accounts for the considerable variation in execution across this series — C#83.3 being one of several cloud-pattern variants distinguished primarily by the arrangement of the six-character obverse inscription.