5 Mohru

Nepal Rastriya Bank was established in 1956, replacing the Udaypur Mint and earlier treasury functions that had long handled currency in the kingdom. This 5 Mohru belongs to the bank's first fully organized note series, produced by De La Rue in London — a standard arrangement for newly centralized South Asian monetary authorities in the late 1950s who lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of meeting security standards.

The Mohru denomination itself was a transitional unit, soon rationalized out of the system when Nepal decimalized in 1961, converting to the Rupee-Paisa structure. Notes from this series consequently had an extremely short official lifespan.