3000 Riels - Norodom Sihamoni The Padaung

The Padaung, more properly called the Kayan, are a Burmese minority group whose women are internationally recognized for the brass neck coils worn from childhood — a practice that has drawn both ethnographic scrutiny and, less charitably, tourist-trade exploitation along the Thai-Myanmar border. Their presence on a Cambodian commemorative is geographically curious; the Kayan have no historical connection to Cambodia, placing this squarely in the category of coins issued for the collector market rather than any national cultural documentation.

Norodom Sihamoni ascended to the throne in 2004 following his father Norodom Sihanouk's abdication after six decades of political dominance.