Catalogus
| Uitgever | Banque Nationale du Laos (Bank of the Lao PDR) |
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| Jaar | 2002-2004 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Lao PDR Kip (1979-date) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | At centre-right, an intaglio portrait of President Kaysone Phomvihane faces three-quarters left against a multicolour guilloche underprint in brown and green tones. To the left, the national coat of arms appears within an ornate circular vignette, with serial number printed twice in brown. At lower right, a vignette of the Xieng Thong (Wat Xieng Thong) temple is rendered in brown intaglio, with Lao script inscriptions running along the upper border. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Portrait of Kaysone Phomvihane, facing forward; embedded security thread visible when held to light |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
The Banque Nationale du Laos — more precisely the Bank of the Lao PDR — issued this denomination during a period of sustained inflation that had made smaller notes effectively impractical for everyday transactions. The 20,000 kip entered circulation as one of the higher-value notes in the series, a reflection of how far the kip had depreciated since the economic turbulence of the late 1990s, when the Asian financial crisis hit the Lao economy particularly hard and the currency lost a significant fraction of its value against the dollar in a very short period.
Cotton substrate and a security thread place it within the standard secure-print specifications the bank adopted for higher denominations from the late 1990s onward.