Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Indian rhino
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Rupee (1932-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | श्री श्री श्री ५ वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव २०५४ |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued as part of Nepal's wildlife conservation series, this coin commemorates the greater one-horned rhinoceros, whose last viable Himalayan-region population survives almost entirely within Chitwan National Park. By 1997, poaching had pushed the species to critical levels across South Asia, and Nepal's anti-poaching units — backed in part by the army — were credited with near-zero poaching years in the early 2000s following renewed enforcement efforts initiated around this period.
KM#1103 was struck during the reign of King Birendra, who was killed in the royal massacre of June 2001.