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1 Skar - In the name of Xuantong, 1908-1912
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a coiling dragon facing left amid stylized clouds, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The dragon is rendered in the traditional Tibetan artistic style with scaled body and prominent claws. Surrounding the beaded circle, a Tibetan legend occupies the outer field, reading the denomination and issuing authority. Two small floral ornaments appear in the lower field flanking the lower legend. The overall composition is characteristic of the Sino-Tibetan coinage issued under the Xuantong reign period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ཤོན་ ཐོང་ བོད་ཀྱི་རིན་ ཀྱི་ རིན་ འཁོར་ སྐར་ གང་ (Translation: shon thong bod kyi rin `khor skar gang Xuantong / Precious coin of one Skar) |
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The Xuantong-era Tibetan coinage occupies an odd administrative gap: Xuantong was the reign name of Puyi, the last Qing emperor, but Tibet's actual relationship with Qing authority had deteriorated sharply following the British Younghusband Expedition of 1904 and the flight of the 13th Dalai Lama to Mongolia. These coins were struck locally at the Dode mint outside Lhasa, operating largely outside meaningful Qing oversight. The "in the name of" attribution is precise — it reflects nominal suzerainty, nothing more.
Y#4 pieces show considerable variation in flan quality and strike consistency, a known characteristic of the Dode facility.