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tibetcoins coins update 6.2013

Dear colleagues and friends, I will pick up herewith my old habit of sending monthly coin newsletters. Here the coins I found during the last month. There is not much special ... the Lhasa markets are cleaned from coins by Chinese traders, but still sometimes I can find something. Below coins are for sale!

The more rare years of 1 Sho KM Y#23, years 16-6, 16-7, 16-8, 16-12.

(the missing years 9, 10, 11 are the most common ones)

20,00 EUR

4 rare years of KM Y#23 4 rare years of KM Y#23

Nepali Mohar for use in Tibet, socalled "Baltam", year 1697.

20,00 EUR

baltam baltam

Presentation Tamka, KM Y#31

This is the last coin minted in Tibet, it was for presentation to the monks on the monlam festival.

presentation Tamka presentation Tamka

Kelsang Tamka,

KM Y#14, for the same purpose as above but in the year 1909/10.

It is black ... therefore 45,00 EUR

(perfect ones are 75,00 EUR now!)

kelsang tamka kelsang tamka

Ganden A Tamka.

This is the first generation of Ganden Tamkas minted in the 1840s.

In my old KM it is KM Y#A13.2.

50,00 EUR

a tamka a tamka

Kongpar Tamka 13-46, KM C#60.1

in very beautiful condition!

50,00 EUR

kongpar 13-46 kongpar 13-46

4 liang grain coupon on 5 sho coin.

The Lhasa car repair factory used these for it's employes as grain coupons.

4 liang are 200 g.

A more beautiful coin is more than 400,00 EUR, this one:

120,00 EUR

4 liang on 5 sho 4 liang on 5 sho

1 Sho KM Y#21, lion looking up, perfect condition!!! Rare to get like that!

120,00 EUR

1 sho KM 21

2 x 7,5 Kar, rare first years 15-52 with different turning whirlwinds

20,00 EUR

7,5 kar with different turning whirlwinds 7,5 kar with different turning whirlwinds

7,5 Kar, KM Y#20, old fake. The script is as if my first week Tibetan students did it.

 

20,00 EUR

7,5 Kar fake 7,5 Kar fake

Very rare 1 Sho KM Y#21.2 errorcoin.

The legend reads:
rab byung 54 lo 15 instead of
rab byung 15 lo 54.
The numbers exchanged places.

Usually such error 1 sho coins are very expensive, between 250 and 380 EUR. This one because of condition: 120,00 EUR

sho errorcoins sho errorcoins

5 Kar KM Y-19.1 year 15-56

10,00 EUR

5 kar dot 5 kar dot

7,5 Kar KM Y#11

Very rare, not extremely beautiful ... but that is what Lhasa can offer now. A beautiful piece of this type would be around 600,00 EUR, this one 280,00 EUR.

Remember this coin is NEVER in very beautiful condition!

7,5 Kar KM Y11 7,5 Kar KM Y11

1 sho KM Y#21.1 without dots on reverse.

20,00 EUR

1 sho without dots on reverse 1 sho without dots on reverse

2 x 10 Sang KM Y#30, year 16-24 once WITH dot behind the 4 (end of middle line) and once WITHOUT.

50,00 EUR

2 x 10 Sang 2 x 10 Sang

10 Sang KM Y#29, year 16-22

25,00 EUR

10 sang year 16-22 10 sang year 16-22

10 Sang KM Y#29.1

 

25,00 EUR

10 Sang KM Y#29.1 10 Sang KM Y#29.1

5 Kar KM Y#19, set of all years: 15-52, 53, 54, 55, 56.

5 coins, 25,00 EUR

5 Kar set of all years 5 Kar set of all years

7,5 Kar, KM Y#20, set of all years: 15-52, 53, 54, 55, 56.

Year 15-60 is very rare and missing here!

5 coins, 25,00 EUR.

7,5 Kar set of all years 7,5 Kar set of all years

10 sang set of all types:

KM Y#29 year 16-22,

KM Y#29a year 16-26

KM Y#29.1 year 16-23

KM Y#30 year 16-25

4 coins: 100,00 EUR

10 sang set of all types 10 sang set of all types

5 sho KM Y#28.1

Nothing special about this coin ...

4,00 EUR

5 sho KM Y#28.1 5 sho KM Y#28.1

Set of 8 copper coins:

5 Sho KM Y#28.1
5 Sho KM Y#28a
5 Kar, KM Y#19
7,5 Kar, KM Y#20
1 Sho KM Y#21.1
1 Sho KM Y#21.2
1 Sho KM Y#21a
1 Sho KM Y#23

30,00 EUR

set of 7 copper coins set of 7 copper coins
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