| Issuer | Tibet |
| Year | 1947-1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Value | 5 Sho (0.5) |
| Currency | Srang (1792-1959) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 8.70 g |
| Dimensions | 29 mm |
| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
| Shape and Technique | Round 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) - |
| Catalog ID | 7053937090 |
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