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10 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Shah
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1985-2001 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Green and multicolour print. The watermark window appears at the left, with a central vignette of a family of Black Buck antelopes, and the National Crest of Nepal positioned to the right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Nepal Rastra Bank contracted at least three separate printers across this note's sixteen-year run — British American Banknote in Canada, Oberthur in France, and Orell Füssli in Switzerland — without ever printing the contractor's name on the note itself. The transition between printers mid-series is tracked today almost entirely through serial prefix ranges: Satyendra Pyara Shrestha's governorship alone spans two distinct printers, identifiable by whether the "Gha" prefix is narrow or wide. That level of philatelic detective work is unusual for a circulating denomination this common.
The addition of a segmented foil security thread, introduced during the Shrestha signature period around 1995, is the single most important physical distinction within the series for attribution purposes.