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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNoost, post: 1219062, member: 14473&quot;]Maybe this helps some</p><p><br /></p><p>After the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Tibet_%281950%E2%80%931951%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Tibet_%281950%E2%80%931951%29" rel="nofollow">invasion of Tibet</a>&nbsp; in 1950-51 the renewed interference of the Chinese... In the early 1950s the&nbsp; Chinese restruck dollars with the portrait of Yuan Shikai in the Chengdu&nbsp; mint. These were introduced into Tibet to pay Tibetan workers involved&nbsp; in road building and to buy the goodwill of influential Tibetans. Many&nbsp; Yuan Shikai dollars were smuggled to India by Tibetan traders who bought&nbsp; western goods in Calcutta which they sold at considerable profits to&nbsp; Chinese Army members in Lhasa.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet#cite_note-22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet#cite_note-22" rel="nofollow">[23]</a>[/SUP]...</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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