Catalog
10 000 Kip
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 10 000 Kip |
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| Obverse description | At center-right, a vignette of the Pha That Luang stupa in Vientiane is set against a multicolored guilloche underprint. The portrait of President Kaysone Phomvihane occupies the right portion of the note, while the national coat of arms of the Lao PDR appears at left. Denomination numerals and bank title inscriptions in Lao script frame the composition along the upper and lower borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | ໑໐໐໐໐ ໑໐໐໐໐ 10000 (Translation: Ten Thousand Kip) |
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The 10,000 Kip note has been a workhorse denomination in Laos for decades, repeatedly reissued with incremental security upgrades as counterfeiting pressure increased across the Mekong subregion. The P#41B designation places this squarely in a modern revision run — same basic design family, adjusted security package. Paper substrate at this denomination is itself worth noting: neighboring economies moved to polymer for comparable values years earlier, but the Bank of the Lao PDR has been slower to make that transition.
A watermark-only security profile is modest for a 2020 issue at this face value.