SKAR: COIN OF TIBET
7½ skar, 1921: Tibet
Ruler: Thubten Gyatso (Ngawang Lobsang Thubten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal) — the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Date on coin: ༡༥-༥༥ (15-55: Tibetan calendar) = 1921 (Gregorian calendar).
In accordance with the Tibetan calendar, the timeline is divided into the equal time cells, — 60 years. The rule for writing the date on Tibetan coins is: the number of the cycle is specified first, followed by the serial number of a year in the current cycle.
Ornament (fishes) and a snow lion as a character of Buddhist mythology and an element of the Tibetan coat of arms.
Scalloped coin.
- Copper: 22 mm - 3.94 g
- Reference price: 14$
COIN SKAR — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- TIBET (1909-1926): skar = 1/10 sho = 1/100 srang
Why is this coin called a skar? — Personally, I do not know for sure... However, there is information that originally the skar was considered a measure of weight and this term meant "star". The fact is that on the ancient Tibetan and Chinese scales instead of numbers were put special marks — stars. The weight that corresponded to the scale of the interval between two stars, and was called in translation "star" — skar.
