3 Srang

€1.00
IssuerTibet
Year1935-1946
TypeStandard circulation coin
Value3 Srang
CurrencySrang (1792-1959)
CompositionSilver
Weight12.50 g
Dimensions31 mm
Thickness
Shape and TechniqueRound
Milled
OrientationMedal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#26, L&M#658
Obverse descriptionSnow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash with two suns in the background, all surrounded four Buddhist auspicious symbols (a white parasol, a conch shell, a pair of golden fish, and an endless knot) and Tibetan characters.
Obverse scriptTibetan
Obverse letteringདགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ
(Translation: dga` ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions)
Reverse descriptionTreasure vase (a Buddhist auspicious symbol) containing foliage with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded three Buddhist auspicious symbols (a victory banner, a dharma wheel, and a lotus flower) and Tibetan characters.
Reverse scriptTibetan
Reverse letteringརབ་བྱུང་ བཅུ་དྲུག་ལོ་ ལོ་ བཅུ་ སྲང་ གསུམ་
(Translation: rab byung bcu drug lo bcu srang gsum Cycle sixteen, Year 10, three Srang)
EdgeReeded.
Mint
Mintage9 (1935)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - དགུ -
10 (1936)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ -
10 (1936)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུ/དགུ (overdate) -
11 (1937)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུག -
12 (1938)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - བཅུས -
20 (1946)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (with dot after date) -
20 (1946)  - བཅུ་དྲུག - ཉིཤུ (without dot after date) -
Catalog ID2720385030
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