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100 Riels Democratic Kampuchea
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| In circulation to | 15 April 1975 |
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| Obverse description | Printed predominantly in green tones, the obverse carries a central vignette of factory workers operating industrial machinery, rendered in an intaglio-style compositional treatment typical of socialist-era note design. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in Khmer script, with the numeral 100 positioned at opposing corners as the principal value indicators. The overall layout reflects the Khmer Rouge-era aesthetic of revolutionary labor iconography. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an agricultural vignette of workers harvesting ripened rice stalks in a paddy field, rendered in a style consistent with the revolutionary propaganda aesthetic of the Democratic Kampuchea period. Multiple figures are shown cutting grain with traditional farm tools across the width of the composition. The issuing authority inscription in Khmer script appears centered below the vignette, accompanied by the date. |
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This note was never actually circulated. When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in April 1975, one of their first acts was the forced evacuation of the capital and the abolition of money entirely — a literal, violent elimination of the currency system. The National Bank of Cambodia was blown up in late 1975. Notes from this issue were printed but never released to the public, making every surviving example a remainder or a note that left the country through other means.
P#24 is among the more coherent printings of the Democratic Kampuchea series, yet it documents a banking institution that functioned for almost no time at all.