Catalog
2000 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic intaglio vignette of Angkor Wat temple complex rendered in olive-green and dark brown tones occupies the central field, with the reflecting pool in the foreground and flanking palm trees; a warm orange-yellow guilloche underprint fills the upper register. The bank title in Khmer script appears at the top within an arched cartouche, while the denomination is given in Arabic numerals (2000) at lower left and in Khmer numerals at lower right, with the Khmer legend for the value centred below the vignette. The printer's imprint FRANÇOIS-CHARLES OBERTHUR is visible at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | ធនាគារជាតិ នៃ កម្ពុជា ពីរពាន់រៀល |
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Cambodia's mid-1990s note series arrived during the fragile reconstruction period following UNTAC's administration and the 1993 elections — a government newly reassembled after decades of war was now also managing a dollarized economy where riel notes of any denomination were treated with deep public skepticism. The 2000 riel denomination sat at an awkward middle value in a country where the US dollar handled most transactions above street-market level.
Oberthur's Rennes facility produced this series with a security thread but no hologram or color-shifting ink — modest by the standards of what major issuing banks were specifying elsewhere that decade.