₨10 — Ten Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mount Everest fills the left panel, ridge and glacier engraved in fine line-work. At the centre, over a pale guilloche field, a four-armed Vishnu bearing chakra and conch stands upon the crowned figure of Garuda. Above it: श्री, नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक, and the guarantee of the Government of Nepal with the promise to pay ten rupees on demand — रुपैयाँ दश, तुरुन्त पाइनेछ. The bank's circular seal sits top right; twin serials, prefix and all, are set in Devanagari numerals.
Back: Three blackbuck in a clearing of light green sal scrub — a horned buck at the right, a doe standing alert, and a fawn couched between them, all worked in reddish-brown intaglio against a soft green wash. The crowned emblem of Nepal rides the arched upper border, with NEPAL RASTRA BANK across the trees and RUPEES TEN along the foot. Value panels, ९० and 10, occupy the upper corners.
In circulation
This front — Everest and the Vishnu-Garuda figure — belongs to the republican notes that displaced the royal portrait designs after 1he monarchy's abolition, and it has been printed from 2012 onward with successive governors' signatures. The blackbuck reverse, in use on the ten since the 1980s, was carried over unchanged. Still legal tender.
Details
- IssuerNepal Rastra Bank (नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक)
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationTen Rupees
- Collectedon the Nepal journeys, 1993–2014
- Series2012 issue, dated in Vikram Samvat on the front
- SignatureSingle signature of the Governor (गभर्नर)
- SecurityMatching serial numbers in Devanagari script, left and right