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1000 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the four-faced tower of Avalokiteśvara at the Bayon temple, Angkor, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral appears in each corner within ornate cartouches, with Khmer script inscriptions across the upper register and flanking panels. |
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| Protection description | the Angkor Wat temple visible in the paper; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Cambodia's 1995 note series, of which this 1000 Riels is part, was produced as the country attempted to stabilize its monetary system following the UNTAC transitional period and the 1993 elections that formally reconstituted the Kingdom. The National Bank of Cambodia had been effectively reestablished only in 1980 after Pol Pot's regime — which had abolished money entirely and blown up the central bank building in Phnom Penh — left the country without functioning financial institutions for nearly four years.
Oberthur's Rennes facility was a consistent supplier to Francophone and former French-administered territories throughout this period. Security provision here is relatively modest — watermark and thread only, no color-shifting ink or latent image features common in higher-denomination notes of the same era.