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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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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Reverse description | The left portion carries a large intaglio vignette of a colossal stone face of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, drawn from the towers of the Bayon temple at Angkor, rendered in subdued earth tones against a background of tropical foliage and a pale sky. A central Khmer decorative arch with ornamental roundels mirrors the obverse design. Khmer script lettering appears at top and at bottom, with the French denomination HAI TRAM DONG and a counterfeit warning in French at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | ពីររយរៀល សៀស្ដាប្បបា HAI TRAM DONG LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS EN VIGUEUR |
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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.