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500 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram Nepal Bank Limited
| Issuer | Nepal Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nepal's 500 rupee silver issues of 1987 were struck to commemorate King Birendra Bir Bikram, who had assumed the throne in 1972 following the death of his father Mahendra. Birendra's reign was defined by political turbulence — the 1990 pro-democracy movement forced him to abandon the partyless Panchayat system and accept constitutional monarchy, a concession that reshaped the country within three years of this coin's minting.
Birendra was killed in the royal massacre of June 2001, when Crown Prince Dipendra shot and killed nine members of the royal family before turning the weapon on himself.