500 Rupees

Issuer	Nepal Rastra Bank
Year	1972
Type	Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse description	Portrait of King Mahendra Vira Vikrama in military uniform with white cap at left, set within an ornate guilloche border. The royal cipher and Nepalese script inscriptions appear in the upper register, with intricate decorative underprint throughout the note field.
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Reverse description	Central vignette of two tigers facing each other on a naturalistic ground, framed by elaborate guilloche scrollwork borders in brown on a light underprint. The Nepalese coat of arms appears in a cartouche at right, with the numeral '500' in the lower right corner and denomination legends in both Devanagari and Roman scripts.
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