200 Piastres Cambodian Issue

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.