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

Issuer Tibet
Year 1793-1796
Type Standard circulation coin
Value 1 Sho (0.1)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Silver
Weight 3.72 g
Diameter 27 mm
Thickness
Shape Round
Technique
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) C#72, L&M#637, Kann#1461, Hsu#512
Obverse description Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left with clouds at the corners, all with more ideograms around (indicating the year).
Obverse script Chinese (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 description Tibetan characters read top to bottom, right to left with clouds at the corners, all with more characters around (indicating the year).
Reverse script Tibetan
Reverse lettering ལྔ་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))
Edge Smooth.
Mint
Mintage 58 (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་ -
Numisquare ID 6876215650
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