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TIBET: AR rupee, ND (1939-42)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
TIBET: AR rupee, ND (1939-42)
SOLD
95.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2011 Sep 17 @ 09:35UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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TIBET: AR rupee, ND (1939-42), Y-3.3, Szechuan trade issue, with collar, vertical rosette, large bust, 14 pearls on necklace variety, with countermark, Gabrish-I, li yung in Chinese characters and the Tibetan syllable lam in a rectangular countermark, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, ex. Richard Haiman Collection. With portrait of Guang Xu derived from British Indian rupee of Queen Victoria. For use by the lamas of Li[tang] Lamasery which today is located in the southwest part of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.