NEPAL ROYAL MASSACRE

This is a nice clean 1 rupee note from Nepal. It has King Birenda Bir Bikram Shah and a temple on the front and two musk deer on the reverse.

the king was one of the victims of the Nepalese royal massacre in 2001.

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NEPALI NOTE WITH MOUNT EVEREST

This is the 20 rupee note from Nepal. It was issued in 2008  and has Mount Everest on the front and a swamp deer on the reverse. the notes are issued by Nepal Rastra Bank which is the central bank of Nepal 

DIFFERENT RUPEE, DIFFERENT COUNTRY

This note from Nepal has a beautiful picture of a leopard on the reverse. The leopard is not an animal that i would associate with Nepal, I may be more likely to say Yeti or Yaks but leopards inhabit territory from Siberia to sub Saharan Africa and they are gorgeous if dangerous animals. Jim Corbett's " the man eating leopard of Rudraprayag" was his account of hunting a leopard who was reputed to have killed over 125 people. The area Jim Corbett operated in, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an Indian Provence on the Nepal border.

........ but back to the note!!!! this is a 2 Rupee note from 1981. It has King Birendra on the front. King Birendra ruled Nepal from 1972 until the Nepalese royal massacre in 2001. The massacre occurred when Prince Dipendra killed 9 members of the royal family and then committed suicide.

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Nepal

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a land locked country in central Asia. In 1951, the Nepali monarch ended the century long rule by hereditary kings and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established multi-party democracy with a constitutional monarchy. In 1996, an insurgency broke out led by the Maoists which led to a 10 year civil war between them and the government which led to the king taking absolute power. After mass protests, in 2008 a constitutional government was elected and promptly abolished the monarchy. The capital city is Kathmandu.  Nepal also has the highest mountain in the world, Sagarmatha more commonly called Mount Everest.

monetary unit:
1 Mohru = 100 paisa  (up to 1961)
1 Rupee = 100 paisa  ( from 1961)

The first note above is the 10 rupee note from 2005 , which is made of  and has a  polymer andhas a clear window on the right of the front and also a portrait of the last king of Nepal, Gyanendra Shah and antelope on the reverse.

The other note is a 5 Rupee note from 1086 issue which covered several years and this one has the signature of Ganesh Bahadur Thapa which is the second of 4 signatures in that series. the front has King Birendra who ruled from 1972 - 2001 when he was killed in the Nepalese royal massacre . the reverse has a pair of Yaks