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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 182

Tibet, Tashi Dargyas Monastery (Kham). Half rupee, red with imprint of four red and one black seal. Serial no. 1890,

These notes were given to monks who participated in debating sessions in the courtyard of the monastery reserved for this purpose. For each seession the participating monk received a half rupee note. For twenty rupees a monk could buy a tea brick of the best quality from the monastery´s store room. By way of trade these notes also circulated outside the monastery in a limited area of Eastern Tibet and could be used as well by outsiders to purchase tea bricks from the Tashi Dargyas monastery. The undated notes are inspired by the design and size of the official Tibetan 5 srang notes and were used in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Illustrated in Bertsch, Wolfgang: The Paper Currency of Tibet. Thyaka Research Centre, Gundernhausen (near Darmstadt) and Lalitpur (Nepal), 2012, p. 170, fig. 104.
(Pick not listed), Almost fine, some pieces missing, but very rare. Ex Colin Narbeth; ex International Banknote Society, auction no. 55, december 1998, p. 74-75.


西藏扎什寺半盧比，有微損，AF，罕見 - Colin Narbeth舊藏

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