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200 Piastres Cambodian Issue
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des États du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-Nam |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Designer(s) | Paul Jouve |
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| Obverse description | At left, a large intaglio vignette of a caparisoned elephant in three-quarter view, rendered in Paul Jouve's characteristic naturalist style; at right, a group of water buffalo wading through a rocky river landscape. The centre is dominated by an ornate Khmer-style decorative arch with scrollwork guilloche, framing the blank centre panel, with the denomination DEUX CENTS PIASTRES in large letterpress above the serial number. The issuer's title INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE DU LAOS ET DU VIET-NAM appears across the top, flanked by the numeral 200 on each side. |
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| Obverse lettering | INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION DES ÉTATS DU CAMBODGE DU LAOS ET DU VIET-NAM DEUX CENTS PIASTRES LE PRÉSIDENT, UN ADMINISTRATEUR, P. JOUVE FEC. J. PIEL - G. BELTRAND SC. |
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The Institut d'Émission des États du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-Nam was a short-lived transitional authority, established in 1952 as France began unwinding the Indochinese monetary union. By 1954 — the year of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Accords — it was already clear the institution would not survive the decade. Notes issued under this authority for Cambodia specifically were produced in small quantities relative to the Vietnamese series, and the 1954 date places this squarely at the moment of dissolution.
Paul Jouve was a specialist in animal imagery, and Jules Piel and Jacques Beltrand were among the Banque de France's most accomplished engravers of the period — an unusually distinguished production team for a note whose issuing authority lasted barely two years after printing.