100 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Tiger

Nepal's 1997 conservation coinage was issued under Birendra Bir Bikram Shah, who had liberalized the monarchy following the 1990 People's Movement that forced Nepal from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy. The tiger issue belongs to a broader series produced in response to international wildlife conservation pressure, particularly surrounding Project Tiger initiatives across South Asia. Nepal's Terai lowlands, specifically Chitwan, had become one of the last viable Bengal tiger habitats after decades of poaching and habitat loss nearly collapsed the regional population.

KM#1102 was struck in both collector and circulation-quality formats, though surviving uncirculated examples are more common than the mintage figures suggest — the series attracted more philatelic than monetary interest.