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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 521

Tibet, Tibet, 50 Tam, dated T.E. 1672 (= AD 1926), blue, red and yellow, serial number 3572, black seal type 1A, obverse: the main design consists of two snow lions facing each other and playing with a ball. Reverse: Four panels are printed in red on a yellow background containing the image of the four animals which are believed to be the guardians of the four quarters, a concept which goes back to Tibet´s pre-buddhist BÖn religion: Snow lion (seng ge) (upper left), dragon (´brug) (upper right), tiger (stag) (lower left) and mythical bird (khyung) (lower right). The T.E. date 1672 is the rarest among this series, (Pick 7, YZM 880 )
very fine and rare

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HK$6,000