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500 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1932-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | श्री नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक श्री ५ को सरकारको जमानत प्राप्त यसको रुपैयाँ भुक्तानी माग्न आएमा नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंकबाट रुपैयाँ ५०० रुपैयाँ पाँच सय तुरुन्त पाइनेछा 500 (Translation: Nepal Rastra Bank Guaranteed by his majesty the king`s government, Nepal Rastra Bank will pay immediately Rs. 500 Five Hundred Rupees on demand) |
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| Reverse lettering | रूपैयाँ पाँच शय RUPEES FIVE HUNDRED ५०० 500 |
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P#50 marks a transitional moment in Nepali currency history — issued shortly after the royal massacre of June 2001, in which King Birendra and eight other members of the royal family were killed. The note entered circulation under King Gyanendra, whose accession under those circumstances made even routine currency issuances politically charged. G&D's Leipzig facility had been supplying Nepali notes for decades by this point, a relationship that continued through the political turbulence of the early 2000s.
The security specification is modest for a high-denomination note of this period — watermark and thread only, no color-shifting ink or microprinting registered in the Pick listing.