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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 541

Tibet, 5 Srang, undated, blue and red, serial number 64045, black seal type 4, the central panel is printed in blue and features a snow lion facing left and looking sidewards carrying a silk ball in his mouth. On his left is a tree with flowers; clouds are seen in the background to the left and the sun to the right. The two lines of black script read
gnam bskos dga´ ldan pho brang phyogs las rnam rgyal
chos srid gnyis ldan rab byung bcu drug pa ´i shog dngul
("The heavenly appointed Ganden Palace, victorious in all directions/paper money of the sixteenth cycle of the religious and political [Government]"), reverse: two dragons with each a large ball representing nor bu dga´ khyil ("whorling jewel of joy") are facing each other and are seperated by a cartouche. Within the cartouche we see a drawing which represents eight auspicious substances (Tibetan: bkra shis rdzas brgyad) which are arranged vertically and are accompanied by floral designs. From top to bottom one can identify a conch (dung dkar g.yas ´khyil "right whorled conch"), a bowl filled with curd (zho), vermillion powder (li khri) in four small boxes, a mirror (me long), below the mirror secretions of the glands of an elephant (gi lvang), Darwa grass (rtsa dur ba), bilva fruit (shing tog bil pa], aegle marmelos) and white mustard seeds (yungs dkar) placed in a bowl. These objects commemorate eight scenes from Buddha´s life, (Pick 8, YZM 877), very fine

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