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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1982-2001 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | At left, a plain watermark window panel; at centre, a vignette of the Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), a wild mountain ungulate, rendered in intaglio; at right, the national coat of arms of Nepal. Decorative guilloche borders and Devanagari inscriptions frame the composition. |
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| Variants | P#33a - signature title right below signature signature: Kalyan Bikram Adhikari (1979-1984) P#33b(1) - signature title centered below signature signature: Ganesh Bahadur Thapa (1985-1990) P#33b(2) - signature title centered below signature signature: Hari Shankar Tripathi (1990-1995) P#33c(1) - with windowed security thread signature: Satyendra Pyara Shrestha (1995-2000) P#33c(2) - with windowed security thread signature: Dipendra Purush Dhakal (2000-2001) |
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Pick 33 spans nearly two decades and five governors, which makes it an unusually long-lived design for a Nepalese issue. The shift to a windowed security thread partway through the run — appearing first with the Shrestha signature from around 1995 — is the most functionally significant change, and collectors tracking the series by signature variety should note that the earlier plain-watermark examples and the later thread varieties are genuinely different objects from a security standpoint, not merely signature substitutions.
Thomas De La Rue handled the full run from London, consistent with Nepal Rastra Bank's long-standing relationship with the printer across multiple denominations during this period.