Tibet, Lhasa Motor Repair Factory (c.1960), uniface AE Token for 4 Liang of grain, 7.51g , undated, la xia chang (short for "la sa xiu li chang)/ mi/si Liang (Lhasa motor vehicle repair factory/grain/four Liang) (KM Tn 1), fine and scarce Issued by the Lhasa Motor Repair Factory in about 1960. The token was good for 4 Liang of grain (rice or barley), equivalent to 200 grams.A Tibetan 5-Sho copper coin of the type Y # 28.1 or Y # 28.2 was used as planchet.See Gabrisch, Karl: "Grain Tokens from Tibet", Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter, 1983 and Bertsch, Wolfgang: "The Tibetan Grain Tokens", Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter, no. 155, Winter 1998, pp. 23-24.
