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100 Srang
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1942-1959 |
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| Size | 214 × 138 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ༅།གནམ་བསྐོས་དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ། ༡༠༠ སྲང་ ༅།ཆོས་སྲིད་གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་ཤོག་དངུལ་སྲང་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ། (Translation: The Tibetan government, by heaven appointed, is victorious in all directions, 100 Srang, The government is both spiritual and secular, the paper money`s value is One Hundred Srang) |
| Reverse description | Two holy men seated beneath a lime tree (linden), rendered in a traditional Tibetan brushwork style; one elder holds a magic flask symbolising the fertilisation of the Earth, with a mountainous landscape in the background. A pair of cranes, emblems of longevity, and two recumbent deer, symbolising prosperity, are positioned in the foreground. Two flying bats, conveying felicity and good fortune in Tibetan iconography, appear in the upper field of the composition. |
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| Variants | P#11a - text 94 mm long correctly placed seal P#11b - text 86 mm long correctly placed seal P#11c - security legend (two latent lines on center, seen best against the light) inverted P#11d - text 86 mm long inverted seal P#Dating - Dated Tibetan notes give the number of the solar year which has elapsed since the legendary founding of the government in 255 AD (Year 1). Thus, Tibetan years are converted to AD by adding 254. On dated notes, the years can be found in the 2nd line on upper front (Not dated notes do not have a 2nd line on top). |
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