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Tibetan Coin - 1 Sho (From the period 1918-1928)

Obverse:  Lion Standing left,looking backwards,with dots in obverse angles

Reverse: THUBTEN GYATSO (Yr. 15-54 - 1920)

Composition: COPPER

Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 3.48-4.78 gram

This coin was issued in 1920 during reign of the 13th Dalai Lama. At this time China was divided by civil war and then distracted by the anti-Japanese war, but never renounced its claim to sovereignty over Tibet and made occasional attempts to assert it but Tibet was relatively autonomous at this time. This is a very common low denomination Tibetan copper coin.