1 Tola - Surendra Vikrama

Surendra Vikrama Shah ruled Nepal under conditions of near-total political subordination to the Rana prime ministers, who seized hereditary control of government following Jung Bahadur Rana's 1846 Kot Massacre. The king's name on the coinage was increasingly ceremonial — real fiscal authority rested elsewhere. The tola itself is a traditional South Asian unit of mass standardized by British colonial administration at 11.6638 grams, though Nepalese royal issues frequently ran slightly heavier against that benchmark.