Catalog
50 Riels
| Issuer | National Bank of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ๕๐ ហាសិបរៀល (Translation: 50 FIFTY RIELS) |
| Reverse description | A central vignette presents a busy port scene with large cargo vessels moored at a long wharf, a tractor and dock workers visible along the quayside. The numeral '50' appears in a guilloche roundel at lower left and repeated at lower right, flanked by decorative naga motifs at the corners; the denomination in Khmer script runs across the lower centre of the vignette. |
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Cambodia's National Bank was re-established in 1979 after the Khmer Rouge had abolished money entirely and physically destroyed the previous central bank building. The 1992 series represented a continued effort to rebuild a functioning monetary system in a country still emerging from decades of war and occupation. The 50 Riels denomination sat at the low end of daily transactions and saw heavy circulation in the early 1990s, coinciding with the UNTAC period when the country was effectively under UN transitional administration.
The print date in the data — 30.04.1945 — is almost certainly a catalog error and should be treated with skepticism.