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50 Paisa - Mahendra Bir Bikram small size
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | A vertical khukuri (kukri dagger) at center, flanked on either side by a garland of rhododendron flowers and foliage, all contained within a central circular panel. Below the dagger appears the Devanagari denomination inscription. The outer border features a lotus-petal decorative frame with Devanagari legends around the periphery reading the royal honorifics. The whole is enclosed within a beaded rim. |
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Nepal's coinage underwent a significant metrication push in the mid-1960s as the government aligned its monetary system with decimal reforms, and the reduced-module 50 Paisa was part of that rationalization. King Mahendra's reign was marked by his 1960 dissolution of parliament and imposition of the Panchayat system — a partyless, royally directed political structure that remained in force until 1990. Coins issued under his authority carried the weight of that centralized power quite literally as instruments of state.
KM#779 succeeded the larger-planchet type, the size reduction driven by cost efficiency rather than any change in monetary policy.