New notes from Nepal and South Ossetia

Numismatic News (opens in a new tab) (World Coin News Staff) published on 5 November 2026 the What’s New in Bank Notes column, section-dated 11 November 2026. It brings two notes: Nepal’s 1,000 rupees and South Ossetia’s 200 zarin. Neither is in Notofilia’s virtual collection. This is notaphily from outside the case.

Nepal

The column says Everest is still on the face of the Nepal Rastra Bank 1,000-rupee note, series 2025. The new color is a green ground and a purple border. It adds rhododendron, denomination watermarks, and several security features. The back keeps the twin elephants Ram and Laxman, and adds the Lachhoka pillar at Hanumandhoka and rhododendron flowers for the seven provinces. That is Numismatic News’s summary.

myRepublica (opens in a new tab) (Kathmandu, 24 September) says the bank put the redesigned note into circulation that day, a Thursday. The dateline does not print the year. The story credits a notice from the Currency Management Department: Series 2025 keeps the size and shifts to pale green inside a purple border. On the face, Everest, watermarks of the rhododendron and of “1000”, a raised Roman M and horizontal lines for someone who reads the value by touch, an image of Bhagwati that looks gold straight on and green when the note is tilted, and a thread that looks red straight on and green when tilted. The signature is Governor Prof. Dr. Bishwanath Poudel’s. On the back, Ram and Laxman, twin elephants born to an elephant named Devkali at the government breeding centre in Chitwan, seven rhododendrons for the seven provinces, and a historic pillar at Lhonchok, Hanumandhoka. Numismatic News writes Lachhoka. myRepublica, citing the bank, writes Lhonchok. This note does not open the original notice and does not pick a spelling.

South Ossetia

The column presents a commemorative 200-zarin note of the National Bank of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Bank of Alania, for the linguist Vaso Abaev. It says the portrait sits with nature and wildlife, and that the scholar matters in the region for the work of keeping the Ossetian language. It gives no issue date. The photo credit in the column is Lanklu Designs & Banknotes. We did not open that studio.

The National Bank (opens in a new tab) dated 20 September 2026 the notice for the issue “Вассо Абаев”. The face value is 200 заринов. The series is of Ossetian figures. The face, the bank says, is history, culture, and tradition. The back is nature. The dominant color is warm green and golden brown. The paper is white cotton, printed at Goznak’s Perm factory. The face is given to the Ossetian language: Vasso’s portrait, the testament to his descendants in his own hand, books, a magnifying glass with the Ossetian letter “æ”, an open book with a Scythian deer, and the republic’s arms. The back: a stag and a doe of the Caucasus, Mount Sanay (Kazbek), a Sarmatian bellflower, and the sign “Z”. The security features it lists: thread, optically variable element, intaglio, a combined watermark, metallized foil, graphic microelements, infrared, and ultraviolet. Two serial numbers sit on the back, with two letters and seven digits. The left one reads along the long side and the right one along the short side. The bank writes Vasso. The column writes Vaso. The notice gives no print run, and this note does not invent one.

The photograph

The picture is Mount Everest, with Nuptse in front, seen from Kala Patthar in October 2005. The file is Lerian’s (Fabien1309) on Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab), public domain. It is the mountain the Nepali note shows. It is not a scan of the 1,000 rupees or of the zarin.