៛2000 — Two Thousand Riels
The artwork
Front: Prasat Preah Vihear, the cliff-top Khmer temple on the Dangrek escarpment, engraved in grey: a gopura with its steep tiered roof and pediment, flanking columns and tumbled masonry stretching away to the right, with a great naga balustrade curling up in the foreground. Khmer script names the National Bank of Cambodia above, the value in words below, with 2000 in Khmer numerals at each corner and matching serial numbers in red and black.
Back: Harvest in the rice fields: a woman in a patterned blouse straightens up with a sickle and an armful of cut stalks, the grain picked out in yellow against otherwise grey engraving, while others bundle sheaves at the left. Behind them, across the paddy and a line of sugar palms, rise the five towers of Angkor Wat. Lotus and floral guilloche fill the margins; NATIONAL BANK OF CAMBODIA and 2007 sit top right.
In circulation
Dated 2007 on the back and released the following year, this Preah Vihear design belongs to the run of Cambodian notes issued as the temple's status was being pressed internationally. It circulated alongside, and was later joined by, 2000 riel notes carrying King Norodom Sihamoni; both denominations remain in everyday use for small purchases.
Details
- IssuerNational Bank of Cambodia (ធនាគារជាតិនៃកម្ពុជា)
- CurrencyRiel (៛)
- DenominationTwo Thousand Riels
- Collectedon the Cambodia journey, 2009
- SeriesDated 2007; Preah Vihear type
- SignatureTwo: Governor (ទេសាភិបាល) and General Cashier (អគ្គបេឡា)