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1 Tola - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Coronation
| Issuer | Nepal Mint |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Weight | 11.6638000 g |
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| Reverse description | Central device featuring the royal Nepalese khukuri and floral emblems within a circular medallion, surrounded by a scalloped lotus-petal border containing repeated Devanagari honorific inscriptions. The denomination 'असर्फी' (Asarphi) and country name 'नेपाल' (Nepal) appear in the lower central field, with additional Devanagari legends distributed across the petals of the ornate border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gyanendra Bir Bikram's first reign lasted precisely 55 days. He was installed as king in November 1950 after his father Tribhuvan fled to India — effectively defecting to the anti-Rana cause — leaving the palace in political crisis. The Rana oligarchy, which had held effective power in Nepal for over a century, needed a compliant monarch and selected the four-year-old Gyanendra. Tribhuvan returned months later under Indian mediation, ending both the Rana stranglehold and this child-king's brief reign simultaneously.
The coronation issue thus commemorates a kingship that was itself a political maneuver, struck in .999 gold at one tola — the traditional South Asian troy weight still in use by Nepali mints at the time.