Spigzy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:48 pm With ABA/Acleda QR domination, the notes are somewhat obsolete nowadays.

Yes, except for the hundreds of thousands of small business owners/ sellers who only use cash.

I useally change my dollars in riels at kandal market on 144 and was surprised lately i get several 100.000 overthere, but i always ask for tomtom, if not, you get a bunsh of 20.000 if you change 200 dollars . . .
They look indeed like the 10.000s, i useally keep them apart when i hit the darker watering holes. If the girls overthere see 100.000s they fall instantly in love with you !!

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:21 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:48 pm With ABA/Acleda QR domination, the notes are somewhat obsolete nowadays.

Yes, except for the hundreds of thousands of small business owners/ sellers who only use cash.

Even the local "mjoo" sellers are on ABA now, I got stared at for paying one in cash the other day, I felt dirty..

March 20, 2023
NBC celebrates 43rd anniversary of riel reintroduction

In a bid to more inclusively raise public awareness on the usage of the national currency, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) hosted a seminar on ‘Riel, Financial Literacy and Bakong’ at the Center for Banking Studies today.

While talking at the event attended by top bank officials and industry leaders from chambers of commerce, financial institutions, universities and microfinance sectors, Chea Serey, Deputy Governor of the NBC, reiterated the significance of promoting the use of riel across the country.
“It is also an occasion to mark the 43rd anniversary of the re-introduction of riel,” Serey said.
-Khmer Times

Sihanoukville Shops Who Refuse 100 Riel Notes Get "Educated"

Cambodia News, (Sihanoukville): Mr. Ek Sophon, Branch Manager of the National Bank of Cambodia in Preah Sihanouk Province, said that recently, a professional officer from the bank has had to visit some traders who were refusing to accept 100 Riel banknotes and educate them.
After receiving multiple complaints about this from Sihanoukville residents, in collaboration with Sihanoukville administration officials, the bank official went to explain, educate and guide the relevant traders. After which, the businessmen admitted their mistakes and promised to participate in the circulation of 100 Riel banknotes as usual.

At the same time, the National Bank of Cambodia, Sihanoukville Branch, would like to announce to the public and traders that in case they have a large amount of 100 riel notes, these can be exchanged for larger banknotes such as 500 Riel, 1000 Riel, 10,000 Riel. etc., at no charge at the Sihanoukville Branch of the National Bank of Cambodia every working day.

Those 100 Riel notes are annoyingly small in value. I'm sure I'm not alone in just chucking them all in a drawer until there's at least a few thousand of them. The recent introduction of the 200 Riel note should go some way to alleviating this issue.