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5 Rupees - Mahendra Bir Bikram
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Value | 5 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Mahendra Bir Bikram at centre, with an intaglio vignette of the celebrated Vishnu and Lakshmi statue from the Royal Bath (Sundari Chowk) of the Patan palace complex. Decorative guilloche border frames the composition, with Devanagari inscriptions and the denomination numeral. |
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| Reverse lettering | रूपैयाँ पाँच RUPEES FIVE |
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Nepal Rastra Bank issued this note under King Mahendra Bir Bikram, though he died in January 1972 and his son Birendra succeeded him almost immediately. Notes bearing Mahendra's name continued in production and circulation into the early years of Birendra's reign — a common transitional overlap that creates genuine uncertainty about which notes actually entered circulation before and after the succession.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled Nepalese currency production across multiple reigns and decades, a relationship that stretched well into the 1970s.