Catalog
10 Kip
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1957-1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of four farmers transplanting rice seedlings in a flooded paddy field, with a rural landscape and hills in the background, rendered in intaglio in shades of green. The issuer inscription 'BANQUE NATIONALE DU LAOS' appears at the top within a decorative frame, and the anti-counterfeiting legend 'LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMÉMENT À LA LOI' runs along the lower border, with the denomination '10 DIX KIP 10' below. Intricate guilloche and Celtic-style ornamental panels border the left and right edges. |
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The Banque Nationale du Laos was established in 1955 following the 1954 Geneva Accords, which ended French Indochina and left Laos nominally independent but economically fragile. This series was the country's first domestically-named currency, replacing the Indochinese piastre under a monetary agreement that gave the United States considerable influence over the new Lao financial system — American aid underwrote much of the early budgetary shortfall, which makes the Philadelphia printing house a logical choice rather than a coincidental one.
Security Banknote Company was a mid-tier American security printer, notably less prolific in foreign sovereign contracts than ABNC or CBNC.