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In ancient Tibet, the use of coins was insignificant.Tibet's main neighbours, India, Nepal and China had had their own coinage since time immemorial. Ancient Tibet however had no locally-struck coinage, although a certain number of coins from Nepal, Chinese Turkestan and China had reached Tibet by way of trade, or as donations to important monasteries.
The first Tibetan tangka was minted in 1763/64. China's Qing dynasty, Tibet's suzerain, [citation needed] established mints in the region in 1792. [citation needed] The Sino-Tibetan tangka carried Chinese language inscriptions. [12] Banknotes were issued between 1912 and 1941 in denominations of 5, 10, 15, 25 and 50 tangka.
China opened another mint in Lhasa in 1792, where the minting of the Sino-Tibetan tangka took place in 1792 (only pattern tangkas with inscription in Tibetan only). The Sino-Tibetan tangkas, struck in 1793 bear an inscription in Chinese, which says, Qian Long Bao Tsang (Tibetan money of the Qian Long period) on one side and its transcription in Tibetan on the other side.
Subsequently, the Tibetan government issued banknotes of 5, 10 and 25 srang. In 1954, a silver coin was struck for distribution to monks. Although this coin was the last tangka issue, it was valued at 5 srang and was the last silver coin to be struck in Tibet.
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Tibetan 7 1/2 skar postage stamp, 1933 issue. Tibet began issuing postage stamps at the beginning of the 20th century. The first stamps were issued in Lhasa in 1912. Other series of stamps were issued in 1914, 1933, and through the end of the 1950s. Tibetan stamps had a figure of a snowlion, the national emblem of Tibet.
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