2 Paisa - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram

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.