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100 Riels
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1956-1974 |
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| Currency | First riel (1953-1975) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and olive-green on multicolor guilloche underprint, with a large intaglio vignette of the Lokeshvara stone face tower at left center, rendered in fine engraved detail. The denomination '១០០' appears in ornate guilloche rosettes at upper left and lower left, with Khmer script legends across the top and bottom of the note. Three signature panels with printed titles in Khmer appear at center right, above a red serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-brown and gold on multicolor guilloche underprint, with three large circular vignette medallions arranged horizontally across the center field. The central medallion contains an intaglio scene of a traditional Khmer long racing boat crewed by standing oarsmen on open water, flanked on the left by a guilloche rosette medallion and an unprinted medallion to the right. The denomination '100' appears in Arabic numerals at lower left and in Khmer numerals at lower right. |
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The Banque Nationale du Cambodge was established in 1954 following the end of the French Protectorate, replacing the Indochina piastre with the riel as Cambodia's independent currency. Giesecke & Devrient supplied several denominations in these early series — a common arrangement for newly sovereign states without domestic printing infrastructure.
The date range on P#8 spans nearly two decades, covering the entirety of Sihanouk's neutralist period through the 1970 coup and into the Khmer Republic years. Notes from the later end of that window circulated under dramatically different political conditions than those issued at the start.