1 Ngultrum

Features

Location	Bhutan
Issuing institution	Royal Government of Bhutan
King	Jigme Singye (1972-2006)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1981-1985
Value	1 Ngultrum (1 BTN)
Currency	Ngultrum (1974-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	155 × 67 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 210872
References	P# 5 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Royal emblem between facing dragons at center, serial number at upper left and right.

Scripts: Latin, Tibetan

Lettering:
དཔལ་ལྔན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་།

BANK OF BHUTAN
༡　འཆང་མཁན་ལ་ངོས་ཀྱིས་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་གཅིག་སྤྲོད་རྒྱུའི་ཁས་བླངས་ཡོད།　1

Translation: Royal Government of Bhutan, I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of total one ngultrum

Reverse

Simtokha Dzong palace.

Scripts: Latin, Tibetan

Lettering:
ROYAL
GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN

༡　ONE NGULTRUM　དངུལ་ཀྲམ་གཅིག།　1

Translation: One Ngultrum

Signature

Yeshe Dorji (YD), Chairman

Printer

De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date)

Comments

Dzong' means "castle-monastery.
Simtokha Dzong also known as Sangak Zabdhon Phodrang (Bhutanese language meaning: "Palace of the Profound Meaning of Secret Mantras") is a small dzong. It was built in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who unified Bhutan was also called the Bearded Lama and unified various warring fiefdoms.
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Date	Signatures	VG	AU	UNC	References		Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1981)	YD				P# 5s Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Specimen	0.7%
ND (1981-1985)	YD	$ 0.84	$ 2.00	$ 3.20	P# 5a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	(fr) P#5a	93%

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