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100 Riels
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1963-1972 |
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| Value | 100 Riels |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio rendering of the gopura gateway of Preah Vihear Temple, set against a warm orange guilloche underprint, with stone staircases and a freestanding column visible to the left. The dark blue upper register carries the bank name in Khmer script flanked by denomination numerals "100" in guilloche ovals at the corners, while the right panel contains a serial number, three manuscript signatures beneath Khmer title legends, and the denomination in large Khmer characters within an oval guilloche cartouche. The printer's imprint "GIESECKE & DEVRIENT MÜNCHEN" appears in small letterpress along the lower left margin. |
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| Signature(s) | not issued |
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The Banque Nationale du Cambodge was established in 1954 following independence from France, replacing the Indochinese piastre with the riel. This 100-riel note spans a print window that brackets the 1970 coup in which Lon Nol deposed Sihanouk — an event that abruptly ended the issuing authority's political continuity and left quantities of prepared but unsigned stock in limbo.
The "not issued" signature status is the key fact here. Giesecke & Devrient completed production, but distribution was never authorized — likely a casualty of the governmental transition and the monetary disruptions that followed as the Khmer Republic moved to assert its own financial institutions.