Evidence coverage: 1933–1962. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Tibetan local currency unit attested by contemporaryreport; no separate coinvariety identities. Srang grouping remains unresolved.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Contemporary monetary survey calls the tangka the official monetary unit and reports Britishrupees circulating at 3 tangkas, with several local tangka coinforms. Assignment to this scoped currency profile is qualified.
Sources and qualifications →Later Tibetan currency was displaced by RMB: Lhasa enterprise pricing and wages switched inJuly1959; paper currency was redeemed at50srang/liang per RMB yuan fromAugust. Silver tangka instruments were purchased by metal value. Grouping this later srang accounting with the1933 tangka profile remains unadjudicated.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Contemporary monetary survey calls the tangka the official monetary unit and reports Britishrupees circulating at 3 tangkas, with several local tangka coinforms. Assignment to this scoped currency profile is qualified.
C1393Later Tibetan currency was displaced by RMB: Lhasa enterprise pricing and wages switched inJuly1959; paper currency was redeemed at50srang/liang per RMB yuan fromAugust. Silver tangka instruments were purchased by metal value. Grouping this later srang accounting with the1933 tangka profile remains unadjudicated.
C1513Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan. Admit tangka component only; do not resolve entire combinedqueue label. No srangparent, Nepali-origin edge or1959termination admitted. Report appears weak on coin metrology; do not import numerical silvercontent. Stronger actual Tibetanaccounts needed to promote beyondqualified.
Contemporary monetary survey calls the tangka the official monetary unit and reports Britishrupees circulating at 3 tangkas, with several local tangka coinforms. Assignment to this scoped currency profile is qualified.
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Later Tibetan currency was displaced by RMB: Lhasa enterprise pricing and wages switched inJuly1959; paper currency was redeemed at50srang/liang per RMB yuan fromAugust. Silver tangka instruments were purchased by metal value. Grouping this later srang accounting with the1933 tangka profile remains unadjudicated.
SectionIII paragraphs3–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.