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1000 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1974-1981 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette, printed in intaglio over a warm ochre and pale rose underprint, presents a large male Asian elephant standing in tall savanna grass against a landscape background; at upper right, the denomination is inscribed in Devanagari script above the English legend 'RUPEES ONE THOUSAND'; at lower centre, the circular seal of Nepal Rastra Bank; at far right, the national crest of Nepal within an arched cartouche; the watermark window occupies the left margin, and numeral '1000' appears at both lower corners within a guilloche border. |
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| Protection description | Crown watermark visible in the unprinted window at right on obverse |
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Nepal's highest-denomination note of this period, the 1000 Rupee was introduced as the country's economy began integrating more formally with international monetary systems following the collapse of the fixed exchange rate with the Indian Rupee in 1966. Thomas De La Rue produced the series under contract — a relationship Nepal Rastra Bank had maintained since the earliest days of the bank's note-issuing operations in the 1960s.
Two governors signed across this issue's lifespan: Kul Shekhar Sharma through 1978, then Kalyan Bikram Adhikari from 1979. Sharma-signed examples are the harder find.