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20 Paisa - Birendra Bir Bikram International Year of the Child
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | श्री श्री श्री बीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाहदेव २०३६ |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts two children standing together beneath a radiant rising sun above a stylized mountain range, symbolizing the United Nations International Year of the Child. The figures are surrounded by laurel branches forming a wreath in the lower field, with the denomination २० पैसा (20 Paisa) inscribed below. A Devanagari legend encircles the design, referencing the commemorative theme of the issue, all contained within a raised dot border at the rim. |
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The International Year of the Child was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979, thirty years after the original Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Nepal was among a number of smaller nations that issued commemorative coinage specifically for the occasion — a pattern that produced dozens of short-run issues globally, most of which saw minimal circulation and ended up in collector sets rather than commerce.
Birendra had ascended the throne in 1972 following the death of Mahendra, ruling under the Panchayat system that suppressed political parties until popular pressure forced its abolition in 1990.