Catalog
200 000 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Size | 170 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown, orange, and pink tones dominate the face, which carries paired portraits of King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk set against an intricate guilloche underprint. Naga heads from the Banteay Samre Temple in Siem Reap province frame the composition, while the Royal Coat of Arms appears as a secondary vignette. The issuing authority name and denomination are rendered in Khmer script. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of King Norodom Sihamoni accompanied by a Pka Chan floral ornament |
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Cambodia's largest-denomination banknote at time of issue, the 200,000 Riel was introduced in 2024 partly as a practical response to the riel's chronic weakness against the US dollar — a currency so dominant in daily Cambodian commerce that many residents use dollar bills for significant transactions and treat riel as change. Issuing a high-denomination riel note is as much a policy statement about currency preference as it is a logistical one.
The security specification for this series is notably thin: watermark alone, with no thread, color-shifting ink, or microprinting recorded under P#74.