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| Issuer | Government of Tibet |
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| Year | 1941-1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-orange and yellow on plain paper, the obverse centres on an oval vignette of snow lions amid clouds and floral scrollwork, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border with geometric corner panels. A circular red seal stamp appears to the left of the central vignette, while a square black official chop with a swastika motif occupies the right side. Two lines of Tibetan script serve as the principal legends above and below the central vignette, with the denomination numerals in Tibetan characters at all four corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | ༢༥ (corners) ཤོག་སྒོར་ (lower corners) གངས་ཅན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་སྒེར་གཞིས་ (upper legend) ཤོག་ལྡེབ་འདིའི་རིན་ཐང་སྲང་ཀར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ་ཡིན་ (lower legend) |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and red-orange on a yellow-toned ground, the reverse presents a large central oval vignette enclosed by bold black acanthus-scroll borders with auspicious endless-knot (swastika) ornaments at top and bottom. Within the vignette, a principal deity or royal figure is enthroned at centre, flanked by attendants, animals, and palatial Tibetan architectural structures rendered in a traditional thangka-inspired style. The entire composition is surrounded by a floral and foliate outer border in red-orange. |
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