How can this 1953 (VS2010) Nepal 20 Paisa be identified as either an original strike or as a restrike? (KM# 738)
Maybe this helps some After the invasion of Tibet in 1950-51 the renewed interference of the Chinese... In the early 1950s the Chinese restruck dollars with the portrait of Yuan Shikai in the Chengdu mint. These were introduced into Tibet to pay Tibetan workers involved in road building and to buy the goodwill of influential Tibetans. Many Yuan Shikai dollars were smuggled to India by Tibetan traders who bought western goods in Calcutta which they sold at considerable profits to Chinese Army members in Lhasa.[SUP][23][/SUP]... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet
