100 Riels

The Banque Nationale du Cambodge was established in 1954 following the end of the French Protectorate, replacing the Indochina piastre with the riel as Cambodia's independent currency. Giesecke & Devrient supplied several denominations in these early series — a common arrangement for newly sovereign states without domestic printing infrastructure.

The date range on P#8 spans nearly two decades, covering the entirety of Sihanouk's neutralist period through the 1970 coup and into the Khmer Republic years. Notes from the later end of that window circulated under dramatically different political conditions than those issued at the start.