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100 Rupees - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on a light underprint. To the left, a portrait vignette of King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah wearing a plumed crown; at centre, a vignette of Mt. Nuptse, Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse; to the right, a clear watermark window. |
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| Protection description | Watermark window visible on both obverse and reverse; portrait watermark of King Gyanendra. |
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Pick 57 was issued under King Gyanendra during the final, turbulent stretch of Nepal's constitutional monarchy. By 2006, the Maoist insurgency had been running for a decade and the king had dissolved parliament and assumed direct rule in February of that year — a move that accelerated, rather than prevented, the end of the Shah dynasty. Notes bearing Gyanendra's name were in circulation for a remarkably short window; the monarchy was abolished by the Constituent Assembly in May 2008.
Replacement notes without royal reference followed quickly, making the Gyanendra-era issues the last Nepalese banknotes to carry a monarch's name after nearly 240 years of Shah rule.