5 Skar

€40,861.00
IssuerTibet
Year1913-1918
TypeStandard circulation coins
Value5 Skar (0.05)
CurrencySrang (1792-1959)
CompositionCopper
Weight6.20 g
Dimensions27 mm
Thickness
Shape and TechniqueRound
Milled
OrientationMedal alignment ↑↑
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) Y#17
Obverse descriptionSnow lion facing left with scroll ornaments around, all surrounded by Tibetan characters within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus.
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 descriptionFlower surrounded by Tibetan characters.
Reverse scriptTibetan
Reverse letteringརབ་བྱུང་ ༡༥་ ལོ་ ༤༣་ སྐར་ལྔ་
(Translation: rab byung 15 lo 43 skar lnga Cycle 15, Year 43, five Skar)
EdgeSmooth.
Mint
Mintage47 (1913)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༤༧ (lion looking upward) -
48 (1914)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༤༨ (lion looking upward) -
48 (1914)  - Y#17.1: ༡༥ - ༤༨ (lion looking back) -
48 (1914)  - Y#17.2: ༡༥ - ༤༨ (lion looking back and upwards; two-line variety) -
48 (1914)  - Y#17.2: ༡༥ - ༤༨ (lion looking back and upwards) -
48 (1914)  - Y#17.3: ༡༥ - ༤༨ (lion looking back and sideways) -
49 (1915)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༤༩ (lion looking upward) -
49 (1915)  - Y#17.1: ༡༥ - ༤༩ (lion looking back) -
49 (1915)  - Y#17.2: ༡༥ - ༤༩ (lion looking back and upwards) -
50 (1916)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༥༠ (lion looking upward) -
50 (1916)  - Y#17.1: ༡༥ - ༥༠ (lion looking back) -
51 (1917)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༥༡ (lion looking upward) -
51 (1917)  - Y#17.1: ༡༥ - ༥༡ (lion looking back) -
52 (1918)  - Y#17: ༡༥ - ༥༢ (lion looking upward) -
52 (1918)  - Y#17.1: ༡༥ - ༥༢ (lion looking back) -
Catalog ID5481651130
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