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500 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Reference(s) | P#66 |
| Obverse description | Dominant red and pink tones on a guilloche underprint with microtext repeating "National Bank of Cambodia" across the upper field. To the left, a vignette of a multi-headed Naga serpent statue occupies the lower-centre, set against the Cambodian Coat of Arms rendered in intaglio at centre. The portrait of King Norodom Sihamoni appears in intaglio to the right, with the denomination numeral "៥០០" in large stylised Khmer script at upper left and again at lower right alongside the Arabic numeral "500". |
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| Obverse lettering | ៥០០ ធនាគារជាតិនៃកម្ពុជា ប្រាំរយរៀល អ្នកក្លែងក្រដាសប្រាក់ នឹងត្រូវ ផ្តន្ទាទោស តាមច្បាប់ ៥០០ 500 (Translation: 500 National Bank of Cambodia Five Hundred Riels Counterfeiters will be punished according to the law 500 500) |
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The 500 Riel occupies an awkward commercial position in Cambodia — by 2014 the denomination was worth roughly twelve US cents, and the country's heavy dollarization meant it functioned primarily as change-making currency rather than a meaningful store of value. The National Bank has maintained the series partly to assert the riel's presence in everyday transactions, where USD coinage is absent and small riel notes fill the gap.
P#66 continues a long-running design family for this denomination, with security specifications modest by regional standards — a basic watermark and thread, no color-shifting ink or microprinting.