50 Paisa - Tribhuwan Bir Bikram

Tribhuvan was nominally king from 1911, but real authority rested with the Rana prime ministers who had effectively reduced the monarchy to a ceremonial institution since 1846. This coin was struck during the long premiership of Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, who held power from 1932 to 1945. Tribhuvan would eventually escape to the Indian embassy in 1950, triggering the political crisis that ended Rana autocracy altogether.

KM#719 was struck at a fineness consistent with the broader Nepalese silver coinage reform of the early twentieth century, which gradually standardized alloy content across denominations.