Tibet BE16-10 1-1/2 srang
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This specimen was lot 2577 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "TIBET: AR 1½ srang, BE16-10 (1936), an attractive mint state example! PCGS graded MS61." This type was struck at the Tapchi mint years BE16-10 thru 16-20. It is among the more common Tibetan coins but the catalog values are no longer relevant; this example sold for fourteen times the SCWC value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5 g, silver.
Catalog reference: Y-24, L&M-660.
- 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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