₨100 — One Hundred Rupees
The artwork
Front: King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev at left, in a high-collared uniform and the plumed royal crown, spectacled and moustached. The centre carries the issuer's name in Devanagari, the government guarantee clause, and "रूपैयाँ एक शय" over a range of snow peaks tinted mauve. To the right rises the five-tiered Nyatapola temple at Bhaktapur, its stone stair flanked by paired guardians; below, a seated deity and twin serial numbers in Devanagari.
Back: A greater one-horned rhinoceros walks left through tall elephant grass, head lowered, the Chitwan lowlands rendered in fine engraved line. Upper right, the old royal arms of Nepal: crown and crossed kukris, Everest, cow and pheasant, and the two soldiers as supporters. Lower left, the bank's circular seal with its Sanskrit motto, the value as १०० and 100, and "RUPEES ONE HUNDRED" in English.
In circulation
A Nepal Rastra Bank issue of King Birendra's reign, in hand through the 1980s and 1990s alongside the smaller green and brown denominations. Notes of this type were overtaken after 2001 by the Gyanendra portrait series, and the royal portrait left the currency altogether from 2007, replaced by designs headed by Everest.
Details
- Issuerश्री नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक — Nepal Rastra Bank, under the guarantee of His Majesty's Government
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationOne Hundred Rupees
- Collectedon the Nepal journeys, 1993–2014
- SeriesBirendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in plumed crown; rhinoceros reverse
- WatermarkPlumed royal crown
- SignatureOne signature only, that of the Governor (गभर्नर)