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.
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.