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3 Rupees - Jigme Dorji Ascension
| Issuer | Royal Government of Bhutan |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Weight | 28.91 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Tibetan |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a large Buddhist Dharma Wheel (Dharmachakra) rendered in elaborate detail, overlaid with a crossed vajra (thunderbolt or dorje) motif, a traditional Vajrayana Buddhist symbol of indestructibility and power. The central device is enclosed within a raised inner circle. A Tibetan script legend arcs across the upper field. The date '19 66' flanks the central device on either side at mid-field, and the bold Latin inscription 'BHUTAN 3 RUPEES' curves along the lower margin of the coin. |
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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.