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100 Srang
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1942-1959 |
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| Reference(s) | P#11 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of two anthropomorphic snow lions, one male and one female, holding a dish of fruits between them; the composition is flanked by decorative borders in traditional Tibetan style. The Dalai Lama's small circular red seal and the rectangular black seal of the Cha-Hsi Le-K'ung Mint appear on the face. Tibetan script inscriptions occupy the upper and lower registers of the note. |
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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) |
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Tibet's 100 Srang notes were produced entirely by hand at the Trabshi Lekhung, the Tibetan government's own printing office in Lhasa — block-printed using traditional methods on locally made paper derived from the daphne shrub. No European security printer was involved. The result is a note that varies noticeably from specimen to specimen in ink density, registration, and sheet dimensions, which is a production characteristic, not a defect.
The series spans 1942 to 1959, the year of the Chinese military consolidation following the failed uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India. Notes from the final years of issue are considerably harder to locate than earlier printings.