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5 Riels Khmer Rouge
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1993-1999 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Children harvesting vegetables at centre, with Khmer temple relief carvings at left and right forming the border vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | កម្ពុជា រូបាៀរៀល |
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Pick R1 designates a note issued not by the National Bank of Cambodia but under Khmer Rouge authority — a faction that had, by the 1990s, been reduced to a guerrilla force operating from jungle strongholds along the Thai border. The "1993–1999" date range reflects estimated circulation period, not a formal issue date; the Khmer Rouge had no functioning central bank infrastructure during these years.
The Khmer Rouge abolished currency entirely during their 1975–1979 rule, so this note represents an ideological reversal — a movement that once destroyed Cambodia's entire monetary system later printing its own scrip to sustain a shrinking insurgency. Whether these notes saw genuine transactional use or functioned primarily as propaganda instruments within controlled territory remains contested among researchers.