100 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Indian rhino

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.