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100 Srang Octagonal seal
| Issuer | Tibetan Government (Ganden Phodrang) |
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| Year | 1939-1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a male and female snow lion rendered in anthropomorphic form, each holding a plate of fruits, positioned at the centre of the note and flanked by columns of Tibetan script stating the denomination and the authority of the Ganden Phodrang government. The note is authenticated by the Dalai Lama's small red circular seal and the black rectangular seal of the Cha-Hsi Le-K'ung Mint, both applied by hand. The composition is executed in a traditional Tibetan woodblock-print style with unornamented borders. |
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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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The Ganden Phodrang issued paper currency under conditions unlike virtually any other twentieth-century government — no central bank, no foreign printing contract, production handled entirely within Lhasa using traditional Tibetan block-printing methods on locally made paper. The 100 Srang notes of this period were printed by woodblock, which means no two impressions are identical in ink distribution or registration, and the paper itself varies noticeably in thickness and texture across the run.
The "Octagonal seal" designation distinguishes this issue from related 100 Srang types by the specific official stamp applied during authentication — the seal's shape was the differentiator, not a separate design series. Ink bleed around the seal impression is common and not considered a defect.