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25 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Nepal Eye Hospital
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a circular medallion depicting the iconic Eyes of the Buddha (Wisdom Eyes) with the stylised nose rendered as a question mark above a cartouche bearing the Devanagari name of the Nepal Eye Hospital. An arc legend in Devanagari reading 'नेपाल आँखा अस्पताल' and 'रजत जयन्ती' (Silver Jubilee) appears in the upper field. The denomination is indicated in both Devanagari (रु.२५) to the left and Latin script (Rs 25) to the right. Along the lower arc the inscriptions read 'SILVER JUBILEE NEPAL' in Latin characters, flanked by the Vikrama Samvat anniversary years in Devanagari numerals. The field is enclosed by a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nepal's first dedicated eye hospital, the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Eye Department, had long struggled with capacity, and by the 1990s preventable blindness — largely from cataracts and trachoma — remained a serious public health burden across the country's rural districts. This coin was issued to mark the founding of the Nepal Eye Hospital and raise its profile as a national institution under royal patronage. Commemorative rupee issues tied to specific charitable or medical causes were a deliberate policy of the Nepal Rastra Bank through this decade.
KM#1126 saw limited distribution outside collector channels.