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10 Paisa - Birendra Bir Bikram FAO
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 10 Paisa |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays an open book at center, referencing the FAO rural education theme of the issue, with a hand emerging from below supporting the book, symbolizing literacy and upliftment. Devanagari inscriptions are arranged around and across the book device, conveying the FAO slogans relating to rural education and women's industry. The legend 'नेपाल' (Nepal) appears prominently at the base of the design. A beaded inner border frames the entire composition within the octagonal flan, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
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| Reverse lettering | दस पैसा ग्रामीण शिक्षा नारी उद्योग जागो तिरलागो नेपाल |
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This piece was struck as part of the FAO coin program, a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization initiative that ran through the 1970s and into the 1980s, encouraging member nations to issue coins with agricultural themes as a form of soft diplomacy around global food security. Nepal participated across multiple denominations. The 1979 issue falls squarely within Birendra's early reign, a period when the Panchayat system still governed political life in Kathmandu — a partyless structure that would survive until the 1990 People's Movement forced constitutional monarchy.