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Description
Issued by | Gouvernement Général de l’Indochine |
Issue | ND (1939) Fractional “Cents” Issue |
Size | 104 x 53 mm |
Printer | Imprimerie d’Extrème Orient Hanoi (French Indochina) – IDEO |
Signatures | Louis Mayet (Le Trésorier Général); Jean Cousin (Le Directeur des Finances) |
Obverse | Stone relief carving of Apsaras dancing on Bayon temple wall and a live female dancer at Angkor Wat |
Reverse | People with elephant gathering at a local market. |
Comment | serial # format XX123.456; denominations on back in Cambodian, Lao, Chinese and Vietnamese |
Remark | Apsara are the celestial singers and dancers who inhabit the heavenly realm of the god Indra, the lord of the heavens. Originally water nymphs, the Apsaras provide sensual pleasure for both gods and men. This banknote depicting dancing Apsara as seen in many Khmer temple wall carvings |