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1 Rupee - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram
| Issuer | His Majesty's Government of Nepal |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee (1 NPR) |
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| Obverse lettering | श्री श्री श्री त्रिभुवन बीर बिक्रम २००५ |
| Reverse description | Central medallion depicting an upright kukri (ceremonial dagger) flanked by two symmetrical floral garland sprays, above the Devanagari denomination inscription 'एक रुपैया' (One Rupee) and 'नेपाल' (Nepal). The central design is enclosed within a circular border and set against a scalloped or lotus-petal decorative frame. The honorific 'Shri' appears multiple times around the outer margin in Devanagari script, consistent with royal Nepalese numismatic convention. The entire reverse is encircled by a fine beaded border. |
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Nepal's shift to billon for this issue reflects the post-war silver shortage that pressured mints across Asia in the late 1940s, with the .333 fineness representing a significant debasement from earlier rupee coinage struck at higher silver content under the same monarch. Tribhuvan himself was no passive figurehead — just four years after this coin circulated, he would engineer a political masterstroke, taking refuge in the Indian embassy in Kathmandu and effectively forcing the collapse of the Rana oligarchy that had reduced Nepal's kings to ceremonial prisoners for over a century.