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15 000 Kip Red Dragon Fish
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 15,000 Kip / RED DRAGON FISH / 紅龍魚 / 禄 / 925 FINE SILVER |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Laos issued a series of colored silver commemoratives around 2000 targeting the Asian collector market, where the arowana — known regionally as the dragon fish — carries deep association with wealth and good fortune in Chinese cultural tradition. The fish commands extraordinary prices in the live trade; certain albino variants have sold for tens of thousands of dollars, making the denomination choice here something of an inside joke among serious collectors.