10 Srang Military payment

€21,439.00
IssuerTibet
Year1950-1951
TypeStandard circulation coins
Value10 Srang
CurrencySrang (1792-1959)
CompositionBillon
Weight16.80 g
Dimensions32 mm
Thickness2.2 mm
Shape and TechniqueRound
Milled
OrientationMedal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#30, L&M#661
Obverse descriptionSnow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash with two suns in the background, all surrounded by Tibetan characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
Obverse scriptTibetan
Obverse letteringདགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ།
(Translation: dga` ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions)
Reverse descriptionTibetan characters surrounded by more characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
Reverse scriptTibetan
Reverse letteringའདུ་ དགོད་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ འདོད་རྒུ་ འཁྱིལ་བ་ རབ་བྱུང་ བཅུ་ དྲུག་ལོ་ ལོ་ ཉེར་བཞི་ དངུལ་སྲང་ བཅུ་
(Translation: `du dgod bde skyid `dod rgu `khyil ba / rab byung bcu / drug lo nyer bzhi / dngul srang bcu Affairs, happiness, objects of desire, turning around / Cycle sixteen / Year twenty-four / Ten silver Srang)
EdgeReeded.
Mint
Mintage24 (1950)  - བཅུ - བཞི (with dot after year) -
24 (1950)  - བཅུ - བཞི (without dot after year) -
25 (1951)  - བཅུ - ལྔ -
25 (1951)  - བཅུ - ལྔ/བཞི (overdate) -
Catalog ID5191854090
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