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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 95

Tibetan Government, Anonymous, 10-Srang, 16.84g, Trabshi mint, T.E.16-22 (1948), snow lion facing left in centre with mount Kailash behind, surrounded by a circle containing a legend in eight petals, rev. a pair of Mongoose facing a banner of victory over disharmony, the year and denomination above in two lines: lo 22/srang 10 (year 22, 10-Srang"), this surrounded by a circle of eight lotus petals containing the legend: chos srid gnyis ldan rab byung bcu drug ("the religious and political government, cycle sixteen") (YZM 516; KM. Y#29 [wrong illustration]; LM 663), very fine


The reverse design has been described by the 14th Dalai Lama or by one of his advisors as follows:
"The design depicts a pair of Mongoose facing a banner of victory over disharmony. The pair of Mongoose represents prosperity, with each vomiting precious stones into a tray. The banner consists of three animals - one animal represents the offspring of the Sea Shell and the Crocodile, another the offspring of the Fish and the Otter, and the third, the offspring of the Garuda and the Snow Lion. Each offspring symbolizes the perpetuation of harmony and unity over the forces of discord, represented by each of the three pairs of animals, which are natural enemies."
(Barrie Newman: "The Australian story behind two Tibetan facsimile 're-strikes': 1950 ten srang and 1957 five sho", Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia (JNAA), vol. 20 ([2009] 2010), p. 82-89
http://www.numismatics.org.au/pdfjournal/Vol20/Vol%2020%20Article%207.pdf

The combined animals, i.e. the mythical chu srin (Sanskrit makara, a creature which is normally represented as being composed of fish and crocodile and having an elephant trunk) issuing from a sea shell, otter with fish-head and snow lion with garuda-head are seen on the coin going from the lower end of the banner upwards.



1948年西藏拾桑銀幣，約16.84克，VF

Estimate
HK$300 to HK$400