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2 Paisa - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1942-1948 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A tall upright trident-tipped dagger (khadga) occupies the center of a raised inner circle, flanked to the left by a crescent moon and to the right by a rayed sun. A Devanagari inscription denoting the denomination appears below the central devices within the circle. The outer field is framed by two foliate sprays rising from the base, with a Devanagari legend arching across the upper portion of the field. |
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| Mintage | 1999 (1942) - - 2000 (1943) - - 2003 (1946) - - 2005 (1948) - - |
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Nepal's copper coinage of this period was produced under significant political tension — Tribhuvan, though nominally king, spent much of the 1940s under effective house arrest by the Rana prime ministerial oligarchy that had dominated the country since 1846. The coins bearing his name circulated in a kingdom where the monarch himself had little practical authority.
KM#710 is frequently found with uneven surfaces attributable to the hand-operated presses used at the Kathmandu mint, which had not yet been modernized.