Nepal VS2012 5 paisa
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This specimen was lot 2768 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $42. The catalog description[1] noted, "NEPAL: Tribhuvana Bir Bikram, 1911-1950, AE 5 paisa, a superb quality example! PCGS graded MS65 RD." This example is not KM 624 as stated by the auctioneers but KM 736, a common type struck VS 2010-2014 without ruler's name. Anonymous one, two, four ten and twenty paisa were also struck; most are common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.89 g, bronze.
Catalog reference: KM 736.
- 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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