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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 166

Tibet, 50 Tam, dated T.E. 1673 (= AD 1927), violet, red and yellow, serial number 16589, black seal type 1A, design and another note with ser. no. 49166 with black seal 1A.

Obverse: the main design consists in two snow lions facing each other and playing with a ball. Reverse: Four panels are printed in red on a yellow background containing the image of the four animals which are believed to be the guardians of the four quarters, a concept which goes back to Tibet´s pre-buddhist Bön religion: Snow lion (seng ge) (upper left), dragon (´brug) (upper right), tiger (stag) (lower left) and mythical bird (khyung) (lower right).
(Pick 7, YZM 882), The first extra fine, very rare grade for this date, the second note about fine (2)


1927年西藏伍拾章噶一組兩枚，均1A型黑印章，VF-EF，少見

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