50 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Radio Nepal

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.