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10g Asarfi - Birendra Bir Bikram Year of the Child
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
| Obverse lettering | श्री ५ बीरेन्द्र बीर विक्रम शाहदेव • नेपाल • २०३१ |
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The 1974 International Year of the Child prompted a wave of commemorative issues worldwide, and Nepal's participation reflected Birendra's deliberate effort to align the kingdom with international development frameworks following his coronation the previous year. The Asarfi denomination is a traditional Nepali gold unit, and its continued use on modern commemoratives was a conscious retention of pre-decimal coinage nomenclature within an otherwise modernizing monetary system.
Fr#73 in Friedberg's gold coin reference places this firmly within the recognized commemorative gold series, though mintages for Nepali gold issues of this period were typically low and precise figures remain inconsistently documented across standard references.