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500 Riels
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1972-1975 |
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| Size | 183 × 86 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and black intaglio on multicolour underprint. A young woman in traditional dress, carrying a vessel on her head, is positioned at left as the central vignette. Guilloche patterning fills the underprint, with denomination numerals and Khmer script inscriptions completing the design. |
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| Variants | P#16a1 - P#16a2 - P#16b - |
| Comments |
Pick 16 was issued during the Khmer Republic period, the short-lived pro-American government that replaced Sihanouk following the 1970 coup. The Banque Nationale du Cambodge continued issuing notes under Thomas De La Rue through these years, but the entire monetary system collapsed in April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh and abolished currency entirely — every bank was closed, and the national reserves were destroyed or abandoned.
Notes from this series found in circulation grades are genuinely scarce; the abolition came so abruptly that large stocks were simply discarded rather than systematically redeemed. The watermark security feature is a De La Rue standard inclusion for the period.