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100 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Value | 100 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Mahendra Vira Vikrama in military dress uniform with white peaked cap at left, a vignette of the Himalayan mountain range occupying the central field. The Nepal Rastra Bank seal and Devanagari inscriptions appear alongside the denomination numerals, with guilloche underprint across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | रूपैयां एक सय RUPEES ONE HUNDRED |
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Nepal Rastra Bank was established in 1956, and by the early 1970s the bank had settled into a consistent relationship with Thomas De La Rue for its higher-denomination printing. This 1972 issue falls within the reign of King Mahendra, who had dissolved Nepal's elected parliament in 1960 and governed under direct royal rule — a political arrangement that shaped the iconography of Nepalese currency throughout the decade.
P#19 is not a note that presents significant collecting complications, though the single watermark security feature is minimal by De La Rue's own standards of the period.