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1 Kak 0.1 Riel
| Issuer | State Bank of the People's Republic of Kampuchea |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 0.1 Riel |
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| Obverse description | Green and light blue note printed on a fine guilloche underprint with radiating lines emanating from the central vignette. The State Emblem of the People's Republic of Kampuchea — a roundel enclosing Angkor Wat above a cogwheel and rice stalks, with a ribbon inscribed in Khmer — is placed at centre, with the country name in Khmer script along the top and the denomination in Khmer script at centre below. The date 1979 appears in a dark panel along the lower border, with numeral denomination panels at lower left and right corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | មួយកាក់ ០.១ (Translation: One Kak / 0.1) |
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The People's Republic of Kampuchea was proclaimed on January 7, 1979, the day Vietnamese forces entered Phnom Penh and ended the Khmer Rouge regime. Pol Pot's government had abolished money entirely in 1975 — banks were emptied, currency destroyed, and the population forcibly relocated. The PRK therefore had to reconstitute a monetary system from scratch, and these fractional kak notes were part of the first currency introduced into a country that had been cashless for nearly four years.
The kak denominations circulated alongside riel notes as the new government attempted to restore basic market activity in conditions of extreme scarcity and ongoing conflict in the western provinces.