Sterling silver ring with bezel set Tibetan Copper Sho coin. The Obverse shows a left facing lion. The Reverse shows dots in reverse arabesques. coin circa 1918-1928 AD. Stock size 8.75 can be sized.
Bounded by the white-capped Himalayas and the Kunlan Shan, the land of Tibet is topographically isolated from the rest of the world. For centuries outsiders were few and far between. Buddist monks, led by the Dalai lamas, devoted themselves to matters of spirit, literally looking down on the world from the mountaintops. This curious blend of religious sophistication and geographical remotemess gave rise to a mythology - Tibet was a forbidden land, an exotic kingdom in the clouds, the presumed location of the fabled Shangri-La - a land of dreams.
Tibetan coinage is quite scarce. The first local mint did not open until 1791, only to close two years later. Tibet did not issue its own coins again until 1836, and continued to do so in small mintages until 1950, when the country was taken over bt the People's Republic of China.
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