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5 Piastres Cambodia Issue
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a central vignette of a tropical riverside landscape with banana plants to the left and palm fronds to the right, set against a guilloche underprint. The denomination CINQ PIASTRES is inscribed in large lettering at center, with the issuing authority INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE DU LAOS ET DU VIETNAM across the top. Two manuscript signatures appear below the vignette, attributed to UN ADMINISTRATEUR and LE PRESIDENT, with the serial number and prefix letter printed at lower left and right, and the warning legend LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMEMENT A LA LOI along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | រដ្ឋសាភាពរប្រទ ប្រាំរូល ប៉ាភិប NĂM ĐỒNG |
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The Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam was established in 1952 as a transitional monetary authority — a French-managed compromise designed to give the Associated States nominal financial independence while keeping the Indochinese piastre under Paris-aligned control. This note was issued in the final year before Cambodia's full independence rendered the arrangement obsolete. The Cambodge-specific series was printed by Bradbury Wilkinson in Surrey, a firm better known for its work on British Commonwealth issues and postage stamps.
The Institut itself was dissolved in 1954 following the Geneva Accords, making the entire emission short-lived by design.