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50 Rupees
| Issuer | Nepal Rastra Bank |
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| Year | 1982-2001 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | At left, a formal portrait vignette of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in plumed ceremonial crown; at centre, a vignette of the Ram Janaki Temple rendered in fine intaglio line work; at right, a dedicated watermark window reserved for the crown watermark. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the central composition throughout. |
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| Signature(s) | signature title right below signature - Kalyan Bikram Adhikari (1979-1984) signature title centered below signature - Ganesh Bahadur Thapa (1985-1990) signature title centered below signature - Hari Shankar Tripathi (1990-1995) with windowed security thread - Satyendra Pyara Shrestha (1995-2000) with windowed security thread - 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.