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1 Riel Bon Touristique
| Issuer | Ministère du Tourisme du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain white ground bearing a two-line French text clause in letterpress, restricting the voucher's use to payment of lodging, meals and beverages. Below, a manuscript signature over a printed title line for the Royal Government delegate to the Tourism Directorate, with an oval hotel cachet struck at left. |
| Reverse lettering | Ce bon est valable seulement pour le paiement des frais de chambre, de repas et de boissons. Le Délégué du Gouvernement Royal à la Direction du Tourisme |
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Cambodia's Ministère du Tourisme issued this bon in 1960 as a scrip voucher intended for foreign visitors — a controlled mechanism to capture hard currency at a time when the Sihanouk government was actively managing foreign exchange flows outside the formal banking system. It was never legal tender in any conventional sense.
The bon touristique series sits in an awkward classificatory space: part coupon, part currency substitute, issued by a ministry rather than the Banque Nationale du Cambodge. That alone makes it an unusual artifact of mid-century Cambodian economic administration.