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500 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 2016-2020 |
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| Value | 500 Rupees |
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| Obverse lettering | नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक NEPAL RASTRA BANK पाँच सय रुपैयाँ RUPEES FIVE HUNDRED |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely rendered intaglio vignette of a Bengal tiger in profile at centre, set against a lightly tinted background. The Nepal Rastra Bank circular seal appears at lower centre, flanked by the denomination numeral '500' in Devanagari at left and within a guilloche rosette at lower right, with the legend 'NEPAL RASTRA BANK' across the top register and 'RUPEES FIVE HUNDRED' along the lower margin. A watermark window panel is positioned at left, and the year date appears at bottom centre. |
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Perum Peruri — Indonesia's state security printer — has supplied Nepalese banknotes across multiple series, an arrangement that reflects both cost and regional printing capacity rather than any political alignment. The 500 Rupee denomination in this series (P#81) carries a security thread and watermark but notably lacks the more sophisticated polymer or holographic elements that appeared on some contemporaneous high-value South Asian issues, a deliberate choice given Nepal's cash infrastructure at the time.
The 2016–2020 date range spans the period immediately following Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquakes and the subsequent economic disruption caused by the India-imposed blockade, during which physical currency supply and distribution faced genuine logistical strain.