The Potala Palace surrounded by Tibetan characters.
Obverse script
Tibetan
Obverse lettering
༄། དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕྱོ་ ལས་རྣམ་
རྣམ་རྒྱལ།
དངུལ་ སྲང་ ལྔ་བཅུ་ཐམཔ། (Translation: dga` ldan pho brang phyo(gs) las rnam rgyal / dngul srang lnga behu tam pa The Ganden palace, victorious in all directions / Coin value 50 silver Srang)
Reverse description
Wheel of Law surrounded by flaming jewel, ribbons, and lotus flower below, all surrounded by Tibetan characters.
Reverse script
Tibetan
Reverse lettering
གངས་ལྗོངས་ ཆོས་སྲིད་ གཉིས་ལྡན་ རབ་ལོ་
༩༢༥་
སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༥༡་ (Translation: gangs ljongs chos srid gnyis ldan rab lo 925 / spyi lo 1951 Cyclic year 927 of the both the religious and worldly [government] of Snow Country / Christian Year 1951)