₨1 — One Rupee
The artwork
Front: King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in military cap and heavy dark-rimmed spectacles, the plumed cap badge picking out the royal device. The centre panel carries the bank's name in Devanagari — नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक — above the guarantee text and the value spelled out, रुपैयाँ एक. Below sits a tiered pagoda temple with a gilt Nandi bull couchant on its plinth; winged kinnara figures run along the top edge, and the governor's signature crosses the temple steps.
Back: Two Himalayan musk deer bound left across bare rock, one behind the other, their coats stippled and picked out in warm brown against a grey-blue plate. Behind them a sheer, jagged snow peak fills the sky. Top right, the old royal arms of Nepal with its plumed crown, crossed kukris and flanking Gurkha soldiers; a carved pillar and the bank seal close the left frame. The value reads रु १ and Re. 1.
In circulation
Issued from the mid-1970s under Birendra and current through the 1980s. After the 1990 constitutional change the uniformed portrait was dropped, and from 1991 the one rupee showed the king in Nepalese dress with a topi. The denomination later gave way entirely to the one-rupee coin.
Details
- IssuerNepal Rastra Bank (नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक)
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationOne Rupee
- Collectedon the Nepal journeys, 1993–2014
- SeriesKing Birendra in military uniform; undated
- SignatureSingle signature, titled गभर्नर (Governor)
- SecurityPrinted guarantee of His Majesty's Government; Devanagari letter-and-numeral serial prefix