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100 Riels Khmer Rouge
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Size | 134 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | A full-colour photographic vignette occupies the central and right portion of the face, showing a line of women harvesting rice in a golden paddy field under an open sky. To the left, a bas-relief stone column with a guardian lion at its base, rendered in Khmer architectural style, frames the composition. Khmer script inscription appears at upper left alongside the numeral 100 at upper right, with an additional Khmer legend and a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A full-colour photographic vignette presents a frontal perspective view of Angkor Wat temple complex, with its five towers rising above the gallery roofline and the ceremonial causeway receding into the centre ground. Large sculptural stone faces, characteristic of Bayon-style Khmer carving, flank the composition on both left and right margins. The numeral 100 in Khmer script appears at upper right, and a Khmer text inscription runs along the lower margin. |
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Pick R5 belongs to the parallel currency system maintained by the Khmer Rouge in territories they controlled following their 1979 military collapse and retreat to the Thai border regions. The notes were never intended for broad economic exchange — they functioned primarily as a political instrument, asserting administrative legitimacy over jungle-held territory while the internationally recognized government operated its own riel in Phnom Penh.
The series is sometimes misdated by collectors who conflate the print year with the period of actual Khmer Rouge governance. By 1993, the movement was a diminished insurgency, not a functioning state. Surviving examples circulated within a narrow geography and a shrinking population.