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10 Srang Pattern
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Weight | 27.40 g |
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| Reverse description | The Dharmachakra (Wheel of Law) occupies the central field, surmounted by a flaming jewel and flanked by flowing ribbons, with a lotus flower at the base. The central device is enclosed within a ring of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism — comprising a white parasol, conch shell, treasure vase, victory banner, dharma wheel, pair of golden fish, endless knot, and lotus flower — each set within the petals of a stylised eight-petalled lotus forming the outer border. The composition is symmetrically arranged and executed in a refined repoussé-influenced die style characteristic of early twentieth-century Tibetan coinage patterns. |
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| Mintage | 1910: ND (1910) |
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Tibet's 1910 coinage experiment came at a moment of acute political pressure: the Qing dynasty's military expedition under Zhao Erfeng had just forced the Dalai Lama to flee to British India, and the Lhasa government was simultaneously negotiating with British advisors about modernizing Tibetan monetary production. This pattern — one of several trial strikes produced around this period — never reached circulation, almost certainly because the political situation collapsed before any minting program could be formalized.
The Qing dynasty itself fell the following year, removing the principal external pressure but leaving Tibet in a sovereignty vacuum that persisted for decades.