Tibetan banknotes
Tibetan banknotes are a beautiful piece of art work. The printing was done on three layers of paper with different handcarved wood block prints for each color and the script. Those three layers (the middle one being a layer with the watermark) were pasted together. Then, by hand, the serial number was written in the appropriate fields and the red seal on the right and the black seal on the left were affixed by different institutions - also by hand.
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number of serials and amounts minted
100 Sang banknotes are not dated. But each year they printed xxx banknotes and each year they would change the first letter of the serial number. |
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This 100 Sang banknote with the serial "g" is the first year of issue of 100 Sang notes (the first two letters of the alphebet being used by the Tam Sang issues. The cartouche for the serial number is filled yellow, which is the case only for the serial numbers ga, nga, ca, cha, nya xxx |
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| With this 100 Sang banknote of the serial "vi" the black seal on the right is affixed top down. |  |
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Even though similar to the above banknotes this is a 100 Tam Sang note, as the first 2 years and serials of the 100 Sang were called. The Tam Sang notes have the serials ka and kha. The 100 Tam Sang is the rarest note of the Sang series, and even though one can occasionally find them in a lot of 100 Sang notes, usually they are extremely worn. |
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25 Sang banknote. Similar to 100 Sang but smaller. Only the serials ka, kha, ga, nga, ca, cha, nya and ja exist. |
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10 Sang. They are dated 1687-1694. |
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| 5 Sang. Rare. |  |
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| The 50 Tam banknote is the most common of the Tam denomination issues. (still they are much more rare than 100 Sang, 25 Sang and 10 Sang). They are dated 1672-1687. |  |
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| I will publish more banknotes here, mostly variations of the above, since I do not have examples of the Tam denomination issues here now. | |
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