5 Sho from Board of Revenue | Yale University Art Gallery

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1948

Medium: Copper
Dimensions: 8.83 g, 12:00, 29.5 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Millicent Todd Bingham
Accession Number: 2001.87.36081
Geography: Made in Tibet
Culture: Tibetan
Period: 20th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Moon and sun above 3 mountains, lion in center

Reverse Description: Flower design with writing in eight petals

Provenance

Millicent Todd Bingham, to 1969; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1969–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

Additional information

coins, money

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