100 Srang Octagonal seal

Features

Issuer	Tibet (China)
Period	Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1939-1940
Value	100 Srang
Currency	Srang (1792-1959)
Composition	Paper
Size	214 × 138 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 549670
References	P# 12 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Human-like male and female lions holding a plate with fruits, Dalai Lama's small red circular seal and Cha-Hsi Le-K'ung Mint black rectangular seal

Script: Tibetan

Lettering:
༅།གནམ་བསྐོས་དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།

༡༠༠ སྲང་

༅།ཆོས་སྲིད་གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་ཤོག་དངུལ་སྲང་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ།

Translation: The Tibetan government, by heaven appointed, is victorious in all directions, 100 Srang, The government is both spiritual and secular, the paper money's value is One Hundred Srang

Reverse

Two holy men seated under a lime tree (Tilia, Linden, Basswood), Two cranes, symbolizing longevity, Two deers, symbolising prosperity, lie on the ground in front of the lames, The old holy man, with mountains in the background, is holding magic bottle, which symbolises fertilizing the Earth, and Two flying bats, symbolizing felicity and fortune

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (1939-1940)

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