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100 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | មួយរយរៀល (Translation: ONE HUNDRED RIELS) |
| Reverse description | A central vignette illustrates a rubber plantation with workers tapping trees amid rows of tall rubber trunks, framed by ornate traditional Khmer decorative borders incorporating a naga serpent figure at right and a stylised floral rosette at left. The denomination appears in Khmer script at lower left and in Arabic numerals at lower right, with the issuing authority inscribed in Khmer across the top. |
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Cambodia's 1990 100 Riels issue came out under the State of Cambodia government, the rebranded successor to the People's Republic of Kampuchea — itself installed by Vietnam after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. The National Bank had been re-established only in 1980, nearly a decade after Pol Pot's regime abolished currency entirely and dynamited the original central bank building in Phnom Penh.
Pick 36 belongs to a transitional series produced as the country moved toward the 1991 Paris Peace Accords. The watermark is the sole security feature — modest, but notable given how recently Cambodia had functioned without any paper money at all.