Euro in Cambodian Riel

EUR Euro

Country of application:
European Union, Austria, Aland Islands, Andorra, Belgium, Vatican, Guadeloupe, Guiana, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mayotte, Malta, Martinique, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Reunion, San Marino, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Finland, France, French Southern and Antarctic Territories

Coin denominations in circulation:
2 and 1 euro, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 cent.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 euros.

History reference:
The Euro is a world currency on a par with the US dollar. It is also a reserve currency (along with the dollar, pound sterling, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan and Swiss franc). The euro symbol, €, is the... symbol for the Greek letter epsilon. According to the standards, the sign is printed in yellow on a blue background. The sign symbolizes Europe, and two parallel lines denote reliability and stability. Sometimes a character is written with one stroke instead of two. Euro is the official currency of 19 EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Malta).

KHR Cambodian Riel

Country of application:
Cambodia

Coin denominations in circulation:
50, 100, 200, 500 riels.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000, 20,000, 50,000 riels.

History reference:
Riel is the national currency of Cambodia. Before the introduction of the riel, the Indo-Chinese piastre was the monetary unit in Cambodia, to which the countrys new money was equated. The Pol Pot re...gime was preparing to introduce its own banknotes, they were printed, but they did not have time to enter circulation. In the days of the Khmer Rouge (Kampuchea), rice was the de facto currency in the country. Money and the banking system (April 1975) as a whole were abolished. The origin of the term riel is debated, with some arguing that it comes from the Khmer word for small fish. Others say it comes from the high-silver Mexican real used by Malay, Chinese and Indian traders in the mid-19th century. This version of the riel remained in effect until 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and the money was abolished. After the 1979 invasion of Vietnam that drove out the Khmer Rouge, the second and current version of the riel was introduced in 1980 when the Central Bank was restored. With no money to replace new banknotes and the economy in decline, the government first had to distribute the money to the public.