10 Srang Military payment

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.