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250 Ngultrums - Jigme Singye Guanyin
| Issuer | Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Ngultrum (1974-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring a double vajra (dorje) motif surrounded by four sinuous druk (thunder dragons) rendered in high relief, arranged symmetrically around the central axis in traditional Bhutanese decorative style. A lotus blossom is depicted at the base of the composition, with stylised cloud scrollwork filling the field. An inscription in Dzongkha script appears in the upper legend, with the legend KINGDOM OF BHUTAN arching along the lower border in Latin characters. Eight small asterisks are evenly spaced around the inner rim. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion) depicted in classical East Asian style, crowned and robed in flowing drapery, holding a willow branch in the right hand and a vessel in the left, standing upon a bed of lotus blossoms amid stylised waves and cloud formations. A circular halo surrounds her head. To the right, a stylised pine tree with cloud motifs occupies the field. The date 2001 appears at the lower left, the denomination 250 Ngultrum arches along the lower portion of the field, and the inscription 1oz SILVER 999 is incused in small characters at the lower right. |
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Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority issued a series of collector pieces in the early 2000s drawing on Buddhist iconography significant across the Himalayan world. Guanyin — the bodhisattva of compassion known in Tibetan Buddhism as Chenrezig — holds particular devotional weight in Bhutan, where Vajrayana practice shapes state ceremony and royal legitimacy alike.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, reigned during a period of deliberate modernization that paradoxically leaned harder into traditional Buddhist framing as an anchor for national identity.