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Facts about the Currency of Independent Tibet

Facts about the Currency of Independent Tibet.  In 1792 the Tibetan Government began minting its own coins, Tamka with Tibetan Inscriptions. In 1890 the Tibetan Government first introduced paper currency.…

In 1909, The 13th Dalai Lama establishes Foreign Bureau

In 1909, The 13th Dalai Lama establishes Foreign Bureau. ༸རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གསུམ་པ་མཆོག་གི་བོད་གཞུང་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལས་ཁུངས།

OLD LHASA SEAL

OLD LHASA SEAL , OLD LHASSA SEAL OF THE DALAI LAMA, LHASA, TIBET

Tibet’s postal stamps, 1912

By 1912, Tibetan had its own postal system and Stamps , The stamps were bilingual. At the Centre of each stamp is Tibet’s national emblem, the snow lion.