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2500 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram 50th Birthday
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central effigy of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev depicted in right-facing profile, wearing ceremonial dress with a plumed crown. The denomination RS 2500 appears to the left and right of the portrait in the field. A circular legend in both Latin and Devanagari script surrounds the effigy, commemorating the Golden Jubilee Birthday of the king. The inscription NEPAL appears at the base, with the year 1995 completing the commemorative legend. The entire design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | KING BIRENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH DEV Rs 2500 GOLDEN JUBILEE BIRTHDAY 1995 NEPAL |
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Issued to mark King Birendra's fiftieth birthday, this is one of the heaviest commemorative coins Nepal ever produced — five troy ounces of fine silver in a single piece. Birendra had ruled since 1972, navigating the transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1990 under significant popular pressure. He would be dead within six years, killed alongside most of the royal family in the palace massacre of June 2001, a night that effectively ended the Shah dynasty's functional grip on Nepal.