₨5 — Five Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mount Everest fills the left panel, rendered in fine engraved line with the snow left as bare paper. In the centre, a tiered pagoda temple of the Kathmandu valley in copper and slate, printed over a guilloche ground, beneath the bank's name in Devanagari and the government guarantee text. The denomination reads रुपैयाँ पाँच, with the governor's signature below and Devanagari serial numbers at both lower corners.
Back: Two yaks, shaggy and long-horned, stand on rough highland grass with a snow-covered Himalayan range rising pale green behind them — the standard image of the Nepali high country and its pack animals. The scene sits inside a red temple-strut frame with carved pillars, the bank's crest above the watermark window, and the value spelled in both scripts: रुपैया पाँच and RUPEES FIVE.
In circulation
One of the republic-era notes issued from 2008, after the king's portrait was dropped from Nepali currency and Everest took its place. Reprinted through the following years under successive governors, with only small changes of shade and signature; it remains legal tender alongside later five-rupee printings.
Details
- IssuerNepal Rastra Bank (नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक), guaranteed by the Government of Nepal
- CurrencyRupee (₨)
- DenominationFive Rupees
- Collectedon the Nepal journeys, 1993–2014
- SeriesEverest series, republic issue
- WatermarkMount Everest, in the blank panel at right
- SignatureGovernor (गभर्नर), single signature