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500 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Cross-country Skiing
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 500 Rupees |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | Two cross-country skiers depicted in dynamic motion across a snow-covered mountainous landscape, with a stylised Himalayan peak rendered in the background. The foreground skier is shown in full stride with poles extended, while a second skier follows in the middle ground. The legend 'OLYMPIC GAMES 1994' curves along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while 'NEPAL' appears in the lower exergue. The denomination 'Rs 500' is inscribed to the left of the central design. |
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Nepal has no alpine tradition in competitive skiing — the 1993 issue was part of a broader wave of developing-nation commemoratives produced explicitly for the collector market, timed to the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. The Nepalese rupee was not convertible, and coins like this one were sold directly through international numismatic distributors, never approaching domestic circulation.
KM#1066 was struck at a foreign facility under contract — almost certainly the British Royal Mint or a comparable European house — a common arrangement for Nepalese silver commemoratives of this period.