Tibet BE15-52 20 srang

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.
• ^[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.

Link to:

• Tibet (1909) srang Y-9
• Tibet BE15-52 sho KM-Y21b
• Coins and currency dated 1918
• return to coins of Tibet