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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 147

Tibet, 50 Tam, CONTEMPORARY FORGERY, dated T.E. 1659 (= AD 1913), purple, serial number 9831, black seal 1A,

Only known specimen of this type of forgery and thus rarer than genuine examples of this note.

For a different type of Tibetan forgery of the 50 Tam note, see Shrestha, 1987, p. 66.
And for forgeries produced in India see below in the section "Indian Forgeries of Early Tibetan banknotes" of this catalogue.

about very fine. Ex Karl Gabrisch collection.


1913年西藏伍拾章噶老假票，1A型黑印章, 西藏老假票極少見，AVF - Karl Gabrisch舊藏

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HK$7,500