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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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| Reverse script | Latin/Devanagari |
| Reverse lettering | FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF / नेपाल / NEPAL / रु ५०० / Rs 500 / ALL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL / 1948 - 1998 / THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS |
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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.