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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 516

Tibet, 15 Tam, dated T.E. 1659 (= AD 1913), violet, serial number 1536, Obverse: In the central field a lion is standing upright in a mountainous landscape with the sun above on the left. The snow lion supports a large plate with his front paws. This plate is filled with precious objects, such as rhinoceros horns, jewels, coral and elephant tusks. Reverse: The central design represents a large plate which is supported by a lotus flower. The plate is filled with what most probably are mustard seeds in the middle, wood apples on the left and red powder, piled up like small pyramids on the right. Above, a large mirror which shows one´s karma, supports a bowl filled with curd which was offered to the Buddha by a peasant girl (Sujata) after he had meditated under a Boddhi tree (ficus religiosa). Above the curd-bowl a conch stands for the spread of the Buddhist teaching.
The note does not have the imprint of the black seal and as such is extremely rare. (Pick 3var., YZM 874var), very fine/extra fine

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