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10 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank (Nepal National Bank) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on polymer substrate in shades of brown and mauve, with an intaglio portrait of King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah in ceremonial dress and plumed crown at left. The central field carries Devanagari inscriptions and a vignette of a four-armed deity (Vishnu) above a kneeling figure, set within a guilloche underprint. The Nepal Rastra Bank seal and denomination in Devanagari script appear in the upper register, with serial numbers printed at lower left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक रुपैयाँ दश तुरन्त पाउने छ |
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Nepal's 2002 polymer 10 Rupees was one of the earliest polymer issues from the subcontinent, printed by Note Printing Australia at a time when NPA was aggressively marketing Guardian substrate technology to smaller Asian central banks. Nepal had been accustomed to cotton-paper notes from the Security Printing Works in Nasik, so the shift to polymer — even for a single low denomination — was a deliberate test of public and institutional tolerance for the new medium.
The transparent window cut into the substrate serves as the primary security anchor, a feature that proved difficult to counterfeit locally given Nepal's limited reprographic infrastructure at the time.