10 Paisa - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram

Tribhuvan's return from self-imposed exile in India in 1951 — engineered with direct assistance from the Indian government and effectively ending over a century of Rana oligarchic rule — triggered an immediate need to reestablish royal coinage. These bronze paisa issues were among the first circulating coins of the new dispensation, produced as the palace worked to reassert sovereign authority over institutions the Ranas had monopolized for generations. Tribhuvan died in March 1955, cutting the series short.