Nepalese rupee

Encyclopedia : N : NE : NEP : Nepalese rupee

The rupee (Nepali:रूपैयाँ) is the official currency of Nepal. It is subdivided into 100 paisa. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Nepal Rastra Bank. The most commonly used symbol for the Rupee is Rs or ₨. The ISO 4217 code for Nepalese Rupee is NPR.

The rupee was introduced in 1932, replacing the silver mohar at a rate of 2 mohar = 1 rupee. Initially, the rupee was called the mohru in Nepalese.

Its value is pegged to the Indian rupee, with 1.6 Nepalese rupees = 1 Indian rupee. [Coin images]

Banknotes

Banknotes are denominated as follows 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 ,100, 500 and 1000 with 1-100 issues starting in 1951 and 5000 issues in 1981 and 1000 in 1972.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Rupees
Current	Indian rupee > Indonesian rupiah \| Maldivian rufiyaa \| Mauritian rupee \| Nepalese rupee \| Pakistani rupee \| Seychelles rupee \| Sri Lankan rupee
Defunct	Afghan rupee > Bhutanese rupee \| Burmese rupee \| Danish Indian rupee \| (British) East African rupee \| French Indian rupee \| German East African rupie \| Gulf rupee \| Hyderabad rupee \| Italian Somaliland rupia \| Netherlands Indian roepiah \| Portuguese Indian rupia \| Riau rupiah \| Travancore rupee \| West New Guinean rupiah \| Zanzibari rupee
Fictional	Hyrulian rupee
See also	History of the rupee
This box: [ view] • [ talk] • [ edit]

Currencies of Asia and the Pacific
Central	Afghan afghani > Kazakhstani tenge \| Kyrgyzstani som \| Mongolian tugrug \| Russian ruble \| Tajikistani somoni \| Turkmenistani manat \| Uzbekistani som
East	Chinese yuan \| Hong Kong dollar \| Japanese yen \| Macanese pataca \| North Korean won \| South Korean won \| New Taiwan dollar
South-East	Brunei dollar > Cambodian riel \| Indonesian rupiah \| Lao kip \| Malaysian ringgit \| Myanmar kyat \| Philippine peso \| Singapore dollar \| Thai baht \| US dollar (East Timor) \| Vietnamese đồng
South	Bangladeshi taka > Bhutanese ngultrum \| Indian rupee \| Maldivian rufiyaa \| Nepalese rupee \| Pakistani rupee \| Sri Lankan rupee
West	Armenian dram > Azerbaijani manat \| Bahraini dinar \| Cypriot pound \| Egyptian pound \| Georgian lari \| Iranian rial \| Iraqi dinar \| Israeli new sheqel \| Jordanian dinar \| Kuwaiti dinar \| Lebanese livre \| Omani rial \| Qatari riyal \| Saudi riyal \| Syrian pound \| Turkish new lira \| UAE dirham \| Yemeni rial
Pacific	Australian dollar (Kiribati, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Tuvalu) > CFP franc (French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna) \| Fijian dollar \| New Zealand dollar (Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Pitcairn Islands) \| Papua New Guinean kina \| Samoan tala \| Solomon Islands dollar \| Tongan pa'anga \| US dollar (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau) \| Vanuatu vatu
This box: [ view] • [ talk] • [ edit]