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½ Asarphi - Mahendra Bir Bikram Coronation
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 2013 (1957) |
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| Currency | Asarphi Gold Coinage |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Nepali royal crown flanked by a crescent moon to the left and a sun to the right, emblematic of the royal house of Nepal. The crown is rendered in fine relief and surrounded by a circular legend in Devanagari script bearing the name of King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah. Additional symbolic devices are distributed around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम |
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Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was crowned in Kathmandu in May 1956, but coronation coinage was struck the following Nepali calendar year — 2013 VS, corresponding to 1956–57 — as part of a deliberate commemorative issue rather than circulation coinage. The half Asarphi denomination places this within Nepal's traditional gold tola-based weight system, the Asarphi being anchored to the tola rather than to any metric or colonial standard.
Mintage on coronation gold of this type was tightly controlled and pieces were largely distributed as gifts within court and diplomatic circles.