Obverse Lion standing, looking backwards, enclosed in a 11-mm diameter circle surrounded by eight connecting fleurets containing Tibetan legend dga'-ldan-pho-bran-phyogs-las-rnam-rgyal (The Ga-den Palace, victorious in all directions). (Note: The Ga-Den Palace was the former residence of the Dalai Lamas, located in Drepung Monastery near Lhasa.) A bead is placed at the top of each of the lines joining the fleurets.
Reverse Sho-gang in center; Around: Rab-byang-15-lo-58 (Cycle 15-Year 58); Beaded border; five arabesques located at NE, SE, SW, and NW. The cycle and the year can be uses to obtain the AD date using the following formula: Number of cycles - 1 * 60 + Number of Years + 1026. Therefore, this coin would be dated 15 - 1 * 60 + 58 + 1026 = 1924 AD.
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My dad has been on numerous trips around the world, and has collected a lot of interesting coins. We were going through them recently and came across this mysterious copper coin, and he though maybe it was from Africa. Google brought us to your site, where we discovered a lot more about it than we had suspected. Thanks so much for posting the information out here for us to find! Very cool. :)
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