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0.5 Riel / 5 Kak Democratic Kampuchea
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 5 Kaks (5 កាក់) (0.5) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a column of Khmer Rouge troops marching along a road receding into the distance, rendered in red intaglio on a green guilloche underprint. The denomination '០.៥' appears in the upper left, with Khmer script inscription across the top centre. At right, a large green and pink guilloche rosette carries the denomination numeral and year in Khmer script. Serial number and prefix appear at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | ០.៥ ចធាការកម្ពុជា ប្រាំកាក់ ១៩៧៥ (Translation: 0.5 Kampuchea Five Kak 1975) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the four serene faces of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as carved on the Bayon temple towers at Angkor, flanked by an industrial lathe machine, together evoking the Khmer Rouge ideal of combining ancient heritage with revolutionary modernisation. Khmer script inscriptions and the denomination '0.5' appear above and below the central design. The note is printed in a red and green colour scheme on plain paper. |
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