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1 Duitola Asarphi - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram

Issuer Nepal Government Mint
Year 1948
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Reference(s) KM#728
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Reverse lettering श्री श्री श्री भवानी
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Mintage 2005 (1948) - (fr) २००५
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The Tribhuvana Bir Bikram gold asarphi series was struck during a period when Nepal's currency system was undergoing gradual formalization, though the country's mint still operated with considerable independence from international monetary norms. King Tribhuvan himself would go on to play a central role in ending Rana oligarchic rule in 1951 — just three years after this piece was struck — when he sought asylum in the Indian embassy in Kathmandu and helped engineer the political transition that restored royal authority.

KM#728 is the heaviest standard gold issue of the series at this denomination, the duitola asarphi weight standard deriving from the traditional tola measurement still used in South Asian gold markets today.

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