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500 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Human Rights
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the 50th anniversary logo of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at center top — a stylized torch with laurel branches incorporated into the numeral '50'. The country name appears in both Devanagari (नेपाल) and Latin (NEPAL) scripts flanking the denomination in Devanagari (रु ५००) and Latin (Rs 500). The legend ALL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL and the date range 1948–1998 are inscribed in the field. The peripheral legend THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS and FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF curve along the left and upper borders respectively, flanked by dot and star ornaments. |
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Nepal's 1990 constitutional reform — which stripped the king of absolute power and established a multiparty democracy — created the political conditions under which a royal portrait could appear alongside a human rights theme without obvious irony. This coin was issued eight years into that experiment, before the Maoist insurgency consumed the country and Birendra himself was killed in the 2001 royal massacre.