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2000 Riels Independence
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 2000 Riels |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Norodom Sihanouk at right, with the Cambodian coat of arms at centre and a nāga (mythical serpent) vignette at left. The design incorporates guilloche underprint patterns across the note field. Inscriptions in Khmer script identify the issuer, denomination, and the king's title as Father of National Independence. |
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| Reverse description | Historical vignette of King Norodom Sihanouk leading troops across a river, evoking the independence struggle, with the Cambodian Independence Monument at right. The composition commemorates the 60th anniversary of Cambodian national independence on 9 November 1953. Khmer and Arabic numeral inscriptions record the commemorative dates and denomination. |
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Cambodia's 2000 Riel denomination has occupied an awkward middle position in daily commerce — too large to be pocket change, too small for significant transactions — which partly explains why these notes circulate hard and return to the bank in poor condition relatively quickly. The 2013 dating places this within the run of Independence commemoratives tied to the anniversary of Cambodia's 1953 separation from French Indochina, a series the National Bank has reissued periodically rather than treating as a one-time commemorative print.
The security specification is notably thin for a 2013-dated note — watermark only, with none of the security thread or color-shifting ink features common to contemporaneous regional issues.