5 Sho Two suns, three mountains

Issuer Tibet
Year 1947-1950
Type Standard circulation coin
Value 5 Sho (0.5)
Currency Srang (1792-1959)
Composition Copper
Weight 8.70 g
Diameter 29 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#28.1, Y#28.2
Obverse description Snow lion facing left in front of Mount Kailash (three mountain peaks) with two suns in the background.
Obverse script
Obverse lettering
Reverse description Tibetan characters surrounded by more characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
Reverse script Tibetan
Reverse lettering དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ། རབ་བྱུང་ ༡༦ ལོ་༢༢ ཉོ་ལྔ།
(Translation: dga` ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal / rab byung / 16 lo 22 / zho lnga The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions / Cycle 16, year 22, 5 Sho)
Edge Reeded.
Mint
Mintage 21 (1947) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༡ (dots at position A and B) -
21 (1947) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༡ (without dots) -
22 (1948) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༢ (dot at position B) -
22 (1948) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༢ (dots at position A and B) -
22 (1948) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༢ (dots at position A, B, and C) -
22 (1948) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༢ (dots at position B and C) -
22 (1948) - Y#28.2: ༡༦ - ༢༢ (without cloud above central mountain) -
23 (1949) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༣ (dots at position A, and B) -
23 (1949) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༣ (dots at position A, B, and C) -
24 (1950) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༤ (dots at position A and B) -
24 (1950) - Y#28.1: ༡༦ - ༢༤/༢༣ (overdate; dots at position A and B) -
Numisquare ID 7053937090
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