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50 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Radio Nepal

Issuer Nepal Rastra Bank
Year 1999
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Diameter 37.5 mm
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Obverse lettering श्री श्री श्री ५ वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव २०५६
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Edge Plain
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Radio Nepal, founded in 1951 shortly after the end of the Rana oligarchy, was the country's first broadcasting service and carried enormous political weight during Nepal's democratic transition — the monarchy used it as the primary instrument of state communication for decades. This commemorative 50-rupee piece marks the station's expansion into FM broadcasting in the late 1990s, issued under King Birendra during a period of constitutional monarchy that would end violently in the royal massacre of June 2001.

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