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100 Kip
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1957-1962 |
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| Designer(s) | Marc Leguay |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a portrait vignette of King Sisavang Vong flanked by the national coat of arms bearing the Erawan three-headed elephant at left, and the Book of the Constitution resting atop two Royal chalice vessels at right. The design is framed with nāga dragon motifs and Lao script inscriptions, with the denomination numeral ໑໐໐ and the issuing authority legend of the National Bank of Laos rendered in intaglio. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque Nationale du Laos was established in 1955, just two years after the country gained full independence from France under the Geneva Accords — and French institutional influence didn't evaporate overnight. The Banque de France printed this series, and Marc Leguay, a French artist closely associated with colonial and post-colonial Indochinese currency design, provided the artwork. The arrangement was less a partnership than a continuation of existing infrastructure under a new flag.
P#6 carried a date range across five years of issue, meaning examples exist with meaningfully different signatures reflecting ministerial turnover during an unusually turbulent period in Lao political history — coalition governments collapsed and reformed repeatedly between 1957 and 1962.