10 Srang Moon and sun

Issuer Tibet
Year 1949-1952
Type Standard circulation coin
Value 10 Srang
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Billon
Weight 16.70 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 2.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#29a, L&M#662
Obverse description Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash with a sun and a moon in the background, all surrounded by Tibetan characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
Obverse script Tibetan
Obverse lettering དགའ་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 description Two Mongoose facing a banner of victory over disharmony with Tibetan characters above, all surrounded by more characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
Reverse script Tibetan
Reverse lettering ཆོས་སྲིད་ གཉིས་ལྡན་ རབ་བྱུང་ བཅུ་དྲུག་ སོ ༢༢ སྲང ༡༠
(Translation: chos srid gnyis ldan rab byung bcu drug / lo 22 / srang 10 The religious and political government, Cycle sixteen / Year 22 / 10 Srang)
Edge Reeded.
Mint
Mintage 23 (1949) - དྲུག - ༢༣ -
24 (1950) - དྲུག - ༢༤ -
24 (1950) - དྲུག - ༢༤ (with moon cut over sun) -
24 (1950) - དྲུག - ༢༤/༢༢ (overdate) -
24 (1950) - དྲུག - ༢༤/༢༣ (overdate; with moon cut over sun -
24 (1950) - དྲུག - ༢༤/༢༣ (overdate) -
25 (1951) - དྲུག - ༢༥ (with dot) -
25 (1951) - དྲུག - ༢༥ (without dot) -
25 (1951) - དྲུག - ༢༥/༢༤ (overdate; with dot) -
25 (1951) - དྲུག - ༢༥/༢༤ (overdate; without dot) -
26 (1952) - དྲུག - ༢༦ -
26 (1952) - དྲུག - ༢༦/༢༥ (overdate) -
Numisquare ID 4514102360
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