Tibet BE15-52 20 srang

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Heritage sale 3021, lot 22823
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 22823 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $4,993.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "Theocracy gold 20 Srang BE1552 (1918), MS63 NGC, nicely toned with full mint brilliance, a very nice example of this highly popular type." Tibet, now a (reluctant) part of China, had secured a de facto independence from China as the Manchu Empire decayed in the late nineteenth century. Tibetan currency was a mixture of Chinese, Nepalese and India units complicated by frequent debasements. One srang = 6-2/3 tangka = 10 sho. This type is listed for 1918-21.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: gold.

Catalog reference: KM-Y22.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Lin Gwo Ming, Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Gold & Silver Coins: Ching and Republican Issues, Seventh Edition, Hong Kong: Ma Tak Wo Numismatic Co., Ltd., 2012.
  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3021, featuring the Cecil Webster, Richard P. Ariagno and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collection, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.

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