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10 Kip Tiger and cubs
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic displayed prominently in the centre of the field, featuring a central device of a landscape with forest, a dam, and rice paddies, surmounted by a hammer and sickle with a five-pointed star above, the whole flanked by bound sheaves of rice. The circular legend 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' runs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '10 KIP' appears in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Laos issued this coin during a period of cautious economic liberalization following the government's 1986 "New Economic Mechanism" — a shift away from rigid central planning that gradually reopened the country to foreign investment and market activity. Commemorative coinage of this type was largely aimed at international collectors rather than domestic circulation; the Lao kip's purchasing power made coins of this denomination essentially symbolic at home.
The Indochinese tiger population had already collapsed dramatically by 1991, which lends the subject an inadvertent documentary quality.