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500 Rupees - Birendra Bir Bikram World Bank
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 35 g |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicts the official emblem of the World Bank — a globe rendered with meridian and parallel lines divided into upper and lower hemispheres — prominently placed in the field. Arching above the globe, the legends 'नेपाल' in Devanagari and 'NEPAL' in Latin script appear along the upper rim, followed by 'THE WORLD BANK' in a secondary arc. The inscription '50TH ANNIVERSARY' curves across the middle field. At the base of the design, the denomination is expressed bilingually as 'रु ५०० RS 500', with the Gregorian year '1994' inscribed in the lower exergue. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | नेपाल NEPAL THE WORLD BANK 50TH ANNIVERSARY रु ५०० RS 500 1994 |
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Issued to commemorate Nepal's membership and engagement with the World Bank, this 1994 silver piece belongs to a broader wave of commemorative issues the Nepal Rastra Bank produced through the 1990s, many tied to international development partnerships that were reshaping the country's infrastructure financing. Nepal had joined the World Bank group in 1961, but the commemorative program marking that relationship came decades later, during Birendra's reign — a period when foreign aid dependency was itself a contentious political subject in Kathmandu.