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20 Riels Winter Olympics-Skier
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the People's Republic of Kampuchea occupies the central field, consisting of a circular emblem featuring a rising sun above water, framed by sheaves of rice and a cogwheel, surmounted by a five-towered temple motif and supported by decorative foliage, with an open book at the base. The circular legend PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA runs along the upper periphery in Latin characters. The denomination 20 RIELS is inscribed in two lines at the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1989 XVI WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES ALBERTVILLE 1992 |
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Cambodia issued a wave of foreign-currency-targeted commemoratives in the late 1980s under the People's Republic of Kampuchea, a Soviet-backed government that had little domestic use for silver collector coins. These pieces were produced almost entirely for export sale to Western numismatic markets, generating hard currency for a state that was simultaneously under a United Nations trade embargo and excluded from most international financial institutions.
KM#81 is one of several sports-themed issues from this period tied to the 1988 Calgary Winter Games — struck after the fact, with a 1989 date.