5 Paisa - Tribhuvana Bir Bikram

Nepal's copper coinage under Tribhuvan was struck at the Kathmandu Mint during a period when the kingdom remained one of the few Asian states never formally colonized, a fact that left its monetary system deliberately insular and slow to modernize. The relatively heavy weight of this issue reflects older Nepalese weight standards rather than any move toward metric rationalization.

KM#711 spans a six-year window that includes the 1940 Rana crackdown that placed Tribhuvan under effective house arrest, though the mint continued production under Juddha Shamsher Rana's administration regardless.