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Lingka palace[10],but we have not been able to secure a good photograph of this piece or to take its weight.
Our thanks to Wolfgang Bertsch for some valuable suggestions in the preparation of this article.
[1] C.f.Rhodes, Gabrisch and Valdettaro, The coinage of Nepal, London:Royal Numismstic Society,1989
[2] C.f. the report of General E-Hui, in the Qing Ding Guo Er Ka ji Lue, Chapter XIII, reprinted Lhasa 1986, with introduction by Wu Fengpei.
[3] Rhodes,N.G., ‘The First Coins Struck in Tibet’, The Tibet Journal, Dharamsala, Vol.XV, no4, Winter 1990, pp.115-34.
[4] Thisdesign isderived from the silver tanka of Mahipatendra Malla, King of Kathmandu, who ruled c1669AD.C.f.Rhodes, Gabrisch and Valdettaro, op.cit.1989,Plate 15,no.266.
[5] One of the seals used by the Panhen Lama has the word Mangalam written is the Lantsa script,so often used in Tibet for writing such Sanskrit mantras. On the coins the legend is in the dbu can script andhas the honorific sri. On both the coin and the seal the consonant “m” which closes the first and the third syllable of this word are written with the “anusvara”, the nasal diacritical mark. However, the mere fact that both
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