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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 142

Tibet, 15 Tam, dated T.E. 1659 (= AD 1913), violet, serial number 5676, black seal 1A.

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 symbolizes the spread of the Buddhist teaching.
(Pick 3, YZM 874), fine and rare


1913年西藏拾伍章噶，1A型黑印章，F，少見

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