Catalog
50 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1977-1978 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1932-date) |
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| Reverse description | At left, an open watermark window. At centre, a vignette of a Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), a wild ungulate of the high Himalayas. At right, the Royal Nepalese Coat of Arms. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work for Nepal Rastra Bank through the 1970s produced a consistent series of intaglio-printed notes for a landlocked economy with extremely limited domestic printing infrastructure. The P#25 belongs to that steady output — nothing experimental about the production, but Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was among the more technically reliable security printers of the period, favored by smaller central banks precisely because the firm didn't require massive print runs to maintain quality.
Nepal's currency in this period was tightly managed against the Indian Rupee at a fixed rate, which kept demand for higher denominations like this one relatively constrained in everyday transactions.