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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 306

Tibet, Anonymous, 5-Sho pattern, 4.44g, 16-4 (1930), crouching snow lion, facing left, looking diagonally upwards, norbu dga' kyil ("whirling jewel of joy"), three ornaments above and small mountain below, within a circular border to which eight lotus petals are attached, each containing one syllable of the standard legend dga' ldan pho brang phyogs las rnam rgyal, rev. central legend zho lnga ("five Sho") within circle around which runs legend: rab byung 16 lo 4 ("cycle 16 year 4"), the syllables being seperated by lotus flowers with eight petals (YZM 425; KM Pn 13), in PCGS holder, graded SP66, very rare

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