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 13th Ngag-dbang-blo-bzang-thub- bstan- rgya-mtsho-'jigs-bral-dbang- phyug-phyogs-las-rnam-rgyal 12.2.1878 - 17.12.1933 |
 14th rJe-btsun-'Jam-dpal- ngag-dbang-blo-bzang-ye- shes-bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho 25.8.1939 - present |
 P7a 50 Tam ND(1926-41AD) |
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 P.7b 50 Tam TE1686(1940) |
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 P.7A 50 Tam TE1686(1940?) Overprint may be counterfeit? * |
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gratefully acknowledge numismatist Wolfgang Bertsch for providing the
following information about this issue:
The date of the above note is probably TE
1686(1940 AD) and therefore it belongs to a group of notes which were
never issued with an extra red seal. This note is most probably genuine,
but the upper right red seal is bogus, probably applied in recent time
to enhance the value of this note, as genuine notes with genuine extra
red seal are valued higher in the market than other notes without this
extra seal, excepting the 50 Tam notes dated 1677(1931 A), which are
rare without extra red seal. Anybody who owns a suitable Tibetan seal
and red Chinese ink can apply some fancy extra seal to any Tibetan
banknote.
Recently a 50 Tam note with four extra red
seals was offered on eBay by a dealer from Singapore. The note was
described as a possible specimen. There is no doubt that the four extra
seals on that note represented a modern addition, applied to enhance the
value of an otherwise unattractive and common note.
There are no multicoloured Tibetan 50 Tam
notes on record which bear more than two seals, except for the large
majority of the 50 Tam notes which have the TE date 1677(1931 AD).
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© Garry Saint, Esquire 1999- 2007
TIBET
Paper Money, TE1672-86(1926-40AD)
Issues