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10 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ๑๐ សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិតកម្ពុជា ๑๐ ដប់រៀល (Translation: 10 PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA 10) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette portrays a rural school building with a pitched roof, a group of uniformed students assembled in the foreground courtyard, palm trees and a flagpole with the national flag to the right, framed by ornate Khmer-style decorative borders on both sides. Denomination numerals appear in all four corners in red, with "RIELS" inscribed at upper left, and the Khmer legend ដប់រៀល at lower right against a pale green guilloche background. |
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Cambodia's 1987 currency issues were produced during the period of Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea governance, when the National Bank of Cambodia had only recently been reconstituted — money itself had been abolished entirely under the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979. The riel was reintroduced in 1980, and this note belongs to the second generation of that reconstruction effort.
The print run of just over twelve million is modest for a low-denomination note, suggesting limited practical utility at a time when larger informal exchange networks and barter still competed with official currency in rural areas.