Nepal, 500 Rupees, 2007 Europe Size: 99 mm*49 mm

Size: 99 mm*49 mm

The reverse of the coin features 12 pellets above a crescent

These notes were a radically different design from the notes used earlier in the colonial period

the mughal ruler and Bhavsinhji I

These coins are 50% silver - silver content of British coins was reduced after the First World War

Nepal, 500 Rupees, 2007 Europe Size: 99 mm*49 mm500 rupee banknote of Nepal, printed in 2007, printed in the last days of King Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal. King Gyanendra ascended the throne in 2001 after the 'Nepalese Royal Massacre', in which his brother King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and seven other members of the Nepalese Royal family were killed by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then shot himself. King Gyanendra faced a popular Maoist uprising, and monarchy was abolished in Nepal in 2008.