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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 1

Nepal for Tibet, Jaya Prakash Malla (c.1750-68), Mohar, 5.27g, NS 856 (AD 1736), Half-Mohar, 3.30g, within central circle trident and legend in four lines: shri 2 ja/ya pra/ka sha/ma lla, eight Buddhist auspicious symbols between inner and outer circle, rev. garlanded sword and legend in five lines within octagonal frame: shri2/ma hi/pa te/ndra ma lla/856, surrounded by eight lotus leaves containing legend (starting at 12 o'clock and reading clockwise): Nepalesvara rajendra (RGV 327), about fine (2)


Large quantities of these alloyed silver coins (ca. 66% silver) were exported to Tibet where many of them were cut in order to obtain small change. The Half-Mohurs circulated at the value of 7½-Skar.



尼泊爾莫哈爾, 半莫哈爾銀幣各一枚, 約5.27克與3.30克, 此銀幣當年在西藏流通, 均AF

Sold for
HK$300