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10 000 Kip - Savang Vatthana Wat Xieng
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Weight | 23.5 g |
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| Reverse description | Detailed frontal view of Wat Xieng Thong, the celebrated 16th-century Buddhist temple of Luang Prabang, rendered with fine architectural detail including its characteristic sweeping multi-tiered roof with elongated finials and richly ornamented facade. The legend BANQUE NATIONALE DU LAOS arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, with the Lao-script equivalent on the left. The date 1975 appears to the right of the temple. The denomination is inscribed in the lower field in two lines: the Lao numeral and script reading 10,000 KIP above the Latin numeral 10.000 KIP, with a small .925 silver fineness mark at lower right. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This piece was issued in the final months of the Kingdom of Laos — Savang Vatthana abdicated in December 1975 under pressure from the Pathet Lao, ending the six-hundred-year-old monarchy. The Banque Nationale du Laos itself was dissolved shortly after, replaced by the state bank of the newly proclaimed Lao PDR. Coins bearing the king's name were not intended for circulation; they were produced for the collector market, largely through foreign distributors, which explains their survival in quantity.
Savang Vatthana was later sent to a reeducation camp in Viengxay, where he died — the exact date unconfirmed by the Lao government to this day.