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1000 Rupees National Museum
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the National Museum of Nepal building rendered in fine relief, showing the principal façade of the historic museum structure. The denomination Rs 1000 appears below the building. The legend NATIONAL MUSEUM NEPAL arcs along the upper portion of the field, while DIAMOND JUBILEE 1938 - 2013 is inscribed in the lower portion, commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the institution. A dotted border encircles the entire reverse design. |
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Nepal's National Museum in Kathmandu, established in 1928, houses one of the most significant collections of Hindu and Buddhist artifacts in South Asia — including weaponry from the Rana oligarchy period that the museum's founding was partly intended to memorialize. This issue belongs to a broader Nepali commemorative program that accelerated sharply after the 2008 abolition of the monarchy, as the newly declared republic sought institutional symbols to replace royal iconography on its commemorative coinage.
The .500 fineness is characteristic of Nepali silver commemoratives of this period, a deliberate cost-control measure by Nepal Rastra Bank.