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10 Cents - Sisavang Vong
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1952 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Lao |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a stylized eight-petalled lotus flower in high relief, with detailed leaf veining on each petal, surrounding the central round hole. The denomination is indicated at lower left as '10' in Latin numerals and at lower right as 'CENTS' in Latin script, with the Lao numeral '໑໐' at upper left and the Lao word 'ອັດ' at upper right. The date '1952' appears at the bottom in Latin numerals, flanked on each side by the Monnaie de Paris wing privy mark. At the top, the Lao numeral date '໑໙໕໒' is inscribed. |
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Laos gained autonomy within the French Union in 1949, and this 1952 issue belongs to the first coinage struck for the newly configured Kingdom — replacing the Indochinese piastre system that had governed the region's currency since the 1880s. The coins were struck at the Paris Mint, as was standard for French-associated territories throughout the postwar decade.
Sisavang Vong had ruled since 1904, initially under French protectorate conditions, and the appearance of his name on an independent monetary issue came only at the very end of his reign — he died in 1959.