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THE NICHOLAS RHODES COLLECTION - COINS OF TIBET298298 Tibet, Anonymous, Forgery 10-Tam pattern, 21.84g, undated, see previous coin (YZM380; KM -), very fine HK$3,000-4,000(US$400-500)PROVENANCE:Ex. Karl Gabrisch collection. Baldwin, Ma Tak Wo, Monetarium & Gillio Auction,Hong Kong, 1 September 2005, lot 176 (with previous lot)Probably produced in Nepal in the late 1960s.The forger engraved the eight Buddhist emblems of the reverse in reversed order andinstead of the peaches and the conch he engraved some meaningless lines. YZM whoillustrates this forgery as no. 380 does not mention that this coin is fake. In the late 1990sone of these apparently rare forgeries was offered for a very high price to the cataloguerby a dealer from Lhasa. It had been brought by a Tibetan trader from Kathmanduto Lhasa. Most probably this is the specimen which YZM illustrates in his catalogue asno. 380.299299 Tibet, Anonymous, Forgery 10-Tam pattern, 12.99g, undated, struck from the samedies as previous coin, but to a different weight standard (YZM 380; KM -), very fineHK$3,000-4,000(US$400-500)WWW.SPINK.COM
August 21, 2013 - HONG KONG300300 Tibet, Anonymous, 20-Tam Srang pattern struck in brass, 7.48g, 15-57 (1923),crouching lion of European style, facing left, legend rab byung 15 (“cycle 15”) and lo 57(“year 57”) below, eight auspicious emblems of Buddhism between inner and outercircles, rev. central legend tam srang 20, around this dga’ ldan pho brang phyogs las rnamrgyal (“the Ganden Palace, victorious in all directions”). (YZM - ; KM Pn 8), in PCGSholder, graded SP63, rareExamples of this pattern were send to Tibet by the British firm Taylor & Challen who hadsold coin presses to Tibet in the 1920s.HK$15,000-20,000(US$2,000-2,500)301301 Tibet, Anonymous, Shokang pattern struck in brass, 4.98g, 15-57 (1923), standing lionof European style, facing left and looking backwards with sun above, the legend dga’ ldanpho brang phyogs las rnam rgyal (“the Ganden Palace, victorious in all directions”) around,rev. central legend zho gang (“one Sho”), surrounded by string of pearls, the legend: rabbyung 15 lo 57 (cycle 15 year 57”) around this, the syllables being seperated by anornament which the European die engraver copied from the regular 1-Sho copper issuesof the Tibetan Government (YZM 769; KM Pn 6), in PCGS holder, graded SP63, rarePROVENANCE:Ex. Spink, 1977. Spink had purchased this coin in the U.S.A. A letter by NicholasRhodes to Carlo Valdettaro, dated Kingston-upon-Thames 11th October 1977 refers tothis. A second letter to Carlo Valdettaro, dated 24 March 1978 concerns the twopattern Shokang coins (lot 301 and lot 307), and the 5-Sho pattern coin (lot 304) inwhich he wrote: “The two 1-Sho coins came from Spinks, who bought them inAmerica. The one dated 15-57 was almost certainly struck by Taylor & Challen inBirmingham, and was the companion piece to our brass 20 srang piece of the samedate. Ringang must have bought the coin press in England in that year, while he waspurchasing the hydro-electric machinery, and these patterns were produced as examplesof what the machine could strike. The machine could not be used in Tibet until 1928,when the hydro-electric plant was finally working and it is my opinion that the first coinstruck was the ¡ 5-Sho (Y 32), which has identical milling to my brass pattern 20-Srang. The two 1-Sho have plain edges. The 15-57 piece has a matt surface, whereasthe 16-1 piece has a proof surface. I have no idea where this latter piece was made, butthe design is very similar to the 16-4 ¡ 5-Sho pattern.”Actually Taylor & Challen must have sent as well (or only) the dies for the Shokang dated16-4 and for the 5-Sho pattern of the same date. Three of the dies must have been keptin the Tibetan mint and are illustrated by Zhu Jinzhong, Wang Hai Yan, Wang Jia Feng,Zhang Wu Yi, Wu Han Lin, Wang Dui and Tse ring Pin cuo: Zhong guo Xi zang Qian bi(Chinese Tibet’s Money). Xi zang zi zhi ou qian bi xue hui (Tibet Autonomous RegionNumismatic Society). Zhong hua Shu ju, ISBN 7-101-03360-4/Z.449, Beijing, 2002, p.199, no. 3-20 and p. 200, no. 3-21 and 3-22.HK$15,000-20,000(US$2,000-2,500)73
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