Tibet BE16-20 3 sho
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This specimen was lot 799 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $111.63. The catalog description[1] noted, "TIBET: AE 3 sho, Trabshi mint, year 16-20 (1946). Autonomous Tibetan issue, small cloud at right, PCGS graded AU50." This very scarce one year type is also known with a variety Y-27.2 (double cloud line). 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 Indian units complicated by frequent debasements.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: Y-27.1.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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