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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 29, July 8, 2012, Article 2

MORE ABOUT THE PAPER CURRENCY OF TIBET BOOK

Author Wolfgang Bertsch forwarded more information about his book on the Paper Currency of Tibet. Thanks. -Editor

The_paper_currency_of_Tibet Wolfgang Bertsch: The Paper Currency of Tibet. Gundernhausen near Darmstadt (Germany) and Lalitpur (Nepal), 2012. VI plus 274 pages. ISBN 978-99933-982-7-1

Tibetan banknotes were issued between 1912/13 and 1959. The first series of "Tam" notes was printed by hand with woodblocks on handmade paper. The multicoloured 50 Tam notes and the following issues in "Srang" were machine printed on native papers. All Tibetan notes were numbered by hand by specially trained calligraphists. Owing to their artistic design Tibetan banknotes can be considered as part of Tibet's cultural heritage.

This book explores the historical background which led to their issue, the way in which they were produced and the merit of their artistic design.

The first four chapters of the book are dedicated to the paper notes which were printed and released in Lhasa and include a catalogue part with estimated values of the different issues and their variants. The fifth chapter is dedicated to semi-official notes issued by an Eastern Tibetan monastery, while the last chapter is dealing with banknotes which bear both Chinese and Tibetan inscriptions and were put into circulation by Chinese authorities in the former province of Xikang which comprised parts of Eastern Tibet and Western Sichuan. Ten appendices provide further information for the specialist and an extensive bibliography concludes the book.

The book is profusely illustrated; all types of the banknotes and many variants and trial prints are reproduced in colour.

With this comprehensive study of Tibetan paper money the author has in mind both the more academically inclined reader who wants to be thoroughly informed about one fascinating aspect of Tibet's cultural history of the 20th century and the collector of Tibetan banknotes who wishes to identify the pieces in his collection and find out their approximate market value.

Wolfgang adds:

The book can be ordered from the site which you had given in your first notice on the book:

e-mail: shankar765@yahoo.com

or consulting the following website: www.nuphil.com/contact.html

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: MORE ON THE PAPER CURRENCY OF TIBET BOOK (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n26a06.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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