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50 Riels
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1956 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Cambodian male peasant standing in three-quarter view at left, carrying bamboo water vessels suspended from a shoulder pole, set against a rural landscape with sugar palm trees to the right. Two signatures appear at upper right, with Khmer script inscriptions above and below the central blank space reserved for the watermark window. Denomination numerals in Khmer script appear at upper left and upper right corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque Nationale du Cambodge was established in 1954 following independence from France, and this early issue reflects how completely the new institution depended on French infrastructure — the Banque de France in Paris printed the entire series, as Cambodia had no domestic printing capacity whatsoever. That dependency wasn't just logistical; it shaped monetary policy for the better part of a decade.
Pick 3A is distinguished from the related 3B by signature combination, a detail that collapses the two into separate scarcities. The 3A signatures correspond to the earliest post-independence appointments to the bank's directorate.