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THE SILVER COINAGE OF TIBET. 351
The specimens I have seen are the following :
I. Obv. Y3K**V.^*R Ch'anZunffpaugt8ang"=TsmS
(= Tibet) coinage of Ch'an Lung. Ou the rim
^ z
I 3? ^D^ inga ichu r fsa r^/rtrf= Fifty-eight.
Rev. l| H Jl ^ Kien Lung pao Tsang (same meaning
as the Tibetan legend). On the rim jEL -p A ^
Wu shih pah nien= Fifty-eighth year (of the Em-
peror's reign begun in 1736)= 1793.
(PI. xv. fig. 3). Size 8-5. Average weight 86 grains.
4 specim. India Off. Collect.
II. Obv. and Rev. same as preceding.
(PI. xv. fig. 4). Size 75. Weight 85-5 gr. India
OS. Coll.
III. Obv. and Rev. same as I.
IV. 29
(PI. xv. fig. 5). Size 6. Wt. 57 gr. Ind. Off. Coll.
Obv. and Rev. same as I.
(Plate xv. fig. 6). Size 4-5. Weight 28 gr. Ind.
Off. Coll.
These four coins are exactly the same and of excellent
casting.
V. Obv. and Rev. same as I., but of an inferior casting, and
do not seem to have been issued with the preceding
ones. 30
Size 7-5. Weight 2 spec. 57 and 55 gr. B.M.
VI. Obv. CKan Lung pau gt&nng (as I.). On the rim :
J ^5 ^ ^\3 Inga Ichu rtsa dgu= Fifty-nine.
Rev. Kien Lung pao tsang (as I.). On the rim : 5GL Hh
^L, $ Wu shih kiii nien= Fifty-ninth year (=1795).
Size 7. Weight 5 spec. 58, 57, 53, 59, 56. 4 B.M.
1 Ind. Off.
28 The central legends are to be read from top to bottom and from right
to left, those of the rim from left to right.
29 Published by Dr. Bushell, see note 26 .
30 This peculiarity is explained by the fact that for the mint of I-li as well
as for the silver coinage of Tibet, the regulation was made in succeeding
reigns that one-fifth of the coins issued should have the inscription Kien
Lung in memory of the great Emperor's conquest. Cf. S. W. Bushell, Coins
of the present dynasty of China, p. 197, in Journ. North China Branch ft.
As. S., 1880, vol. xv. pp. 195-308.