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10 Srang Military payment
| Issuer | Tibet |
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| Year | 1950-1951 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central block of Tibetan inscription detailing the denomination, regnal cycle, and year of issue, surrounded by an additional ring of Tibetan characters, the whole enclosed within the petals of an eight-petalled lotus border mirroring the obverse design. The inscriptions record the sixteenth Rab-jung cycle, year twenty-four or twenty-five, and the denomination of ten silver Srang. The layout follows the standard format of Tibetan silver coinage of the Ganden Phodrang government, with text arranged in horizontal lines within the central field. |
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| Mintage | 24 (1950) - བཅུ - བཞི (with dot after year) - 24 (1950) - བཅུ - བཞི (without dot after year) - 25 (1951) - བཅུ - ལྔ - 25 (1951) - བཅུ - ལྔ/བཞི (overdate) - |
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Tibet's military payment issues of 1950–51 were struck under extraordinary duress — the People's Liberation Army invaded in October 1950, and the Lhasa government's ability to maintain any coinage program at all collapsed within months. These billon pieces were produced at the Trabshi mint, which had always operated erratically by any standard, and the alloy consistency varies noticeably across surviving examples, reflecting the breakdown in normal procurement and production.
The Dalai Lama fled to Yatung near the Sikkimese border in early 1951 as negotiations over the Seventeen Point Agreement were forced through. Coins struck in this window represent the last autonomous monetary output of the Tibetan government before Chinese administrative absorption effectively ended independent issue.