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10 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 10 Riels |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of the People's Republic of Kampuchea is positioned at left, with the central vignette presenting a tea harvest scene in which workers are engaged in agricultural labour. The denomination appears in Khmer numerals and script, flanking the design, with the date 1979 at the lower portion and Khmer script inscriptions bordering the composition. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a schoolyard scene with students assembled before the national flag of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, reflecting the post-revolutionary emphasis on education. The denomination is rendered below the vignette in both Khmer script and Western numerals. |
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The 1979 series was the first currency issued after the Khmer Rouge period, during which Cambodia had famously abolished money entirely — the National Bank was blown up in 1975, markets were banned, and the entire population was forcibly relocated to agricultural labor camps. When the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea reestablished a monetary system, it did so from essentially nothing, with no functioning banking infrastructure and a population that had spent four years in a cashless forced economy.
Printed by the Soviet security printer Goznak, the series reflects Cambodia's political alignment in 1979 rather than any continuity with pre-Khmer Rouge banking.