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3 Rupees - Jigme Dorji Ascension
| Issuer | Royal Government of Bhutan |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Value | 3 Rupees |
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| Reverse lettering | 19 66 BHUTAN 3 RUPEES |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Bhutan's 1966 coinage program marked the country's first modern machine-struck silver issues, produced to commemorate Jigme Dorji Wangchuck's formal ascension as the third Druk Gyalpo. The coins were struck at the Indian Government Mint in Calcutta — Bhutan having no mint facility of its own — as part of a broader modernization effort that also introduced Bhutan's first paper currency that same decade.
KM#32a is the silver variant of a type also struck in copper-nickel, distinguished by the .925 fineness and substantially heavier planchet.