A very high-security event here today big man is attending, suggest it is has something to do with the stamp currency museum.
Freedom Park / Monetary Museum
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I was wondering what that museum was for, it's looked finished for months but never seems open.
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Yup, that is indeed what it was - the inauguration of the new monetary museum.
First monetary museum opens in the KingdomCambodia's first national museum showcasing the Kingdom’s economic and financial evolution was inaugurated on Monday, recounting the history of its money and economy from the first century to the present day.
Commissioned by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), it is called the Preah Srey Icanavarman Museum, with the name chosen by the Prime Minister.
King Icanavarman – who reigned from 616 to 637 – is a hero of the Chenla kingdom which would later become the Khmer Empire. He took Isanapura – present day Sambor Prei Kuk in Kampong Thom province – and issued the first gold coin to demonstrate his glory and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of his Kingdom, NBC governor Chea Chanto said
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