Nepal VS2004 1/2 paisa
This specimen was lot 3703 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "NEPAL: Tribhuvana Bir Bikram, 1911-1950, AE 1/2 paisa, VS2004 (1947), one-year type, only struck for presentation sets, mostly red; surface hairlines (visible only under magnification), NGC graded Unc details." Other coins of VS2004 included a quarter paisa (KM 704), one paisa (KM 707a), twenty paisa (KM 714) and fifty paisa (KM 718). Nepal was and is an independent nation between India and Tibet but under the strong influence of the British raj. Some coins are dated using the Saka Era (SE) and others using the Bikram Samvat Era (VS).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, 16 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-705.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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