₨20 — Twenty Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mount Everest fills the left third in fine red line-engraving, the summit pyramid seen above the Khumbu ridges. Centre, in Devanagari, the bank's name and promise to pay twenty rupees over a golden shikhara temple and a standing pillar topped by a kneeling votive figure, in the manner of the Kathmandu Valley durbar squares. The Nepal Rastra Bank roundel sits top right, above the blank watermark oval; serials in Devanagari numerals with a Devanagari prefix.
Back: A sambar stag stands full-face in tall elephant grass, antlers raised, with scattered trees and a snow range closing the horizon behind — lowland Tarai country of the sort protected in Nepal's western reserves. The state emblem crowns the top centre, above NEPAL RASTRA BANK in Roman capitals; RUPEES TWENTY and the year 2012 A.D. run along the lower band. Brick-red and pale green throughout.
In circulation
Part of the republican series that dropped the royal portrait in favour of Mount Everest. This 2012-dated printing circulates alongside later dates of the same design, reissued with successive governors' signatures rather than redrawn, so the twenty has kept the deer and the Everest face for well over a decade.
Details
- IssuerNepal Rastra Bank (श्री नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक)
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationTwenty Rupees
- Collectedon the Nepal journeys, 1993–2014
- SeriesRepublican issue, dated 2012 A.D. on the reverse
- WatermarkMount Everest, in the clear oval at right
- SignatureGovernor (गभर्नर), Nepal Rastra Bank