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10 000 Kip - Savang Vatthana Coronation
| Issuer | Royal Lao Government |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 10 000 Kip |
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| Obverse lettering | COURONNEMENT DE S.M. SRI SAVANG VATTHANA · 1971 · |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts the royal arms of Laos: the three-headed white elephant Erawan standing on a five-tiered pedestal beneath a parasol radiating sunbeams, flanked by two ceremonial umbrellas on tall poles and ritual vessels in the field. The design is enclosed within a raised inner circle. The peripheral legend reads in Lao script along the left arc and ROYAUME DU LAOS in Latin script along the right arc, with the denomination expressed bilingually in Lao script and 10000 KIP at the base. The fineness mark 925 appears in the lower field. |
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Savang Vatthana's coronation in 1971 was a ceremony long overdue — he had technically ascended the throne in 1959 following his father Sisavang Vong's death, but formal coronation was repeatedly deferred as the Pathet Lao insurgency and the widening American war in Indochina made such ceremonies politically fraught. By 1971, with the country nominally stabilized under the Vientiane Accords framework, the Royal Lao Government moved forward. It would prove to be the last coronation in Laotian history.
Savang Vatthana abdicated in 1975 under Communist pressure and died in a re-education camp, likely around 1978 or 1984 — the exact date remains unconfirmed by Vientiane.