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5 Mohru
| Issuer | Nepal Rastriya Bank |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of King Mahendra in profile; at centre, a vignette of the Swayambhunath Temple stupa; at right, a blank watermark window reserved for the crown watermark. The overall design is executed in multicolour letterpress with fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a blank watermark window; at centre-right, a vignette of Mount Everest rendered in a landscape composition. The reverse carries denomination inscriptions in Devanagari script within a guilloche border framework. |
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Nepal Rastriya Bank was established in 1956, replacing the Udaypur Mint and earlier treasury functions that had long handled currency in the kingdom. This 5 Mohru belongs to the bank's first fully organized note series, produced by De La Rue in London — a standard arrangement for newly centralized South Asian monetary authorities in the late 1950s who lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of meeting security standards.
The Mohru denomination itself was a transitional unit, soon rationalized out of the system when Nepal decimalized in 1961, converting to the Rupee-Paisa structure. Notes from this series consequently had an extremely short official lifespan.