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2500 Rupees Birth Centenary Year of Archeological and Cultural Expert Satyamohan Joshi
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | Central left-facing portrait bust of Satyamohan Joshi, the renowned Nepali archaeologist and cultural scholar, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The portrait is accompanied by Devanagari inscriptions identifying the subject and commemorating his birth centenary year. The denomination रु. २५०० (Rs. 2500) appears in the lower field, and the Bikram Sambat year २०७६ is also present. The overall design is framed by a circular legend in Devanagari script. |
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Satyamohan Joshi, born in 1919, spent decades documenting Nepal's Newar language, classical music, and tantric iconography at a time when much of that knowledge existed only in oral transmission or deteriorating palm-leaf manuscripts. His work on the Newari cultural heritage predated and directly informed later UNESCO recognition of the Kathmandu Valley's living traditions. Nepal Rastra Bank has issued a number of scholarly commemoratives in this vein, but Joshi is among the few honorees who lived to see his own centenary — he was 100 years old when this coin was struck.