TIBET: AR rupee (10.66g), Kangding mint, ND (1919), Y-3.3, WS-775, Szechuan-Tibet trade issue, large portrait of the Chinese emperor Guang Xu with collar derived from British Indian rupee of Queen Victoria // vertical rosette at center, Chinese inscription, si chuan sheng zao ("made in Sichuan"), branches with cusps and flowers around, a feature also derived from the reverse of British Indian rupees, countermark Tibetan sa in lobed depression and Chinese & Tibetan li yong lam in rectangular depression, PCGS graded EF40, R, ex George Anderson Collection. The countermark "li yong lam" consists of two Chinese characters and one Tibetan syllable and has tentatively been attributed to the Litang monastery in Eastern Tibet. Marked 'tooled' by PCGS, but no evidence of tooling is at all evident.
Estimate: 100-150 USD