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100 Ngultrum Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 100 Ngultrums |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined portrait vignette of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and Queen Jetsun Pema at right, rendered in intaglio on a golden-yellow guilloche underprint. At centre, a decorative Buddhist endless knot motif rises from a lotus flower, flanked at left by a large circular Bhutanese royal emblem with dragon surround. The denomination '100' appears in Dzongkha script at upper left alongside a cloud-and-dragon vignette, with serial number in red at upper right and vertically at left. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Punakha Dzong, the historic fortified monastery-palace at the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers, rendered in brown and green intaglio with surrounding trees and landscape. The denomination numeral '100' appears in both upper corners in Dzongkha script, with further '100' numerals in the lower corners. The issuer's name in English is printed in brown across the top, with the denomination in English and Dzongkha script along the lower margin. The inscription 'PUNAKHA DZONG' appears in small lettering at lower left of the vignette. |
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Issued to mark the October 2011 marriage of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Agyem Yangdon Tobjgay, this note was the Royal Monetary Authority's first commemorative banknote — an unusual step for an issuer that had traditionally kept its currency strictly functional. The print run of over twelve million suggests genuine mass circulation was intended rather than a collector-only release, which was not universally the case with royal wedding notes issued by other central banks at the time.
Security specification is modest for the period — watermark and thread only, without the optically variable or color-shifting elements appearing on Bhutan's standard circulation issues by this date.