100 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Year of the Child

Nepal issued this coin to mark the International Year of the Child — but that campaign ran in 1979, not 1974. This 1974 piece was struck five years earlier as part of a broader FAO and UN-aligned commemorative program that Nepal's government embraced aggressively throughout the mid-1970s, producing numerous silver issues aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. The .500 fineness reflects a deliberate cost-containment choice, keeping silver content low enough to make large commemorative runs economically viable.