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10 Kip
| Issuer | Pathet Lao (Free Lao Movement) |
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| Year | 1945-1946 |
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| Value | 10 Kip |
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| Obverse lettering | ຣັຊຊະກາລ ຕົວເຈ້ຍເບັ້ນຕົ່ວໃຈໄດ້ແທນນ້ຳເງິນໂດຍສາງກໍດສອງ ສິບກີບ ກ-ນຶງດ ກັບຍິງຕໍ່າກາຍພາ ຊາດກາຍາດີ |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in purple, the reverse presents a detailed panoramic vignette of a Lao royal temple complex — likely Wat Phra Kaew or a similar royal monastery — surrounded by palm trees and a wide courtyard, rendered in a fine engraved style across the full width of the note. The denomination numeral '10' appears in the upper left and upper right corners within decorative frames, and a line of Lao script inscription runs along the lower border beneath the central vignette. The background is filled with intricate guilloche latticework patterns. |
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The Pathet Lao provisional issues of 1945–46 predate the formal establishment of the Lao resistance government by several years, placing them among the earliest political currency produced by the independence movement. They circulated in areas under Lao Issara control during the chaotic interregnum following Japan's surrender, when French colonial authority had briefly collapsed and various factions were scrambling to assert administrative legitimacy before Paris reasserted control in 1946.
Printing quality is crude by any measure — a deliberate consequence of clandestine production rather than institutional incompetence. Surviving examples are genuinely rare; most were abandoned or destroyed when French forces reoccupied Vientiane.