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20 Kip
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1979-1988 |
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| Reference(s) | P#28 |
| Obverse description | Multicolour printing on a fine guilloche underprint; the national coat of arms is positioned at centre-left, flanked by Lao-script inscriptions. The central vignette combines a military parade scene in the middle ground with a tank advancing through a wooded landscape at left and a patrol speedboat on the Mekong River at right. Denomination numerals appear within guilloche cartouches at each corner, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown and yellow tones over a fine guilloche underprint within an ornamental foliate border, the central vignette portrays workers operating large industrial looms inside a textile mill. The Lao-script bank name is inscribed above the vignette, while the numeral '20' repeats within circular guilloche cartouches at lower-left and upper-right, accompanied by the denomination in Lao script within a rosette at right. |
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The 1979 series marked the first major banknote issue by the Bank of the Lao PDR following the abolition of the Royal Lao kip and the short-lived Pathet Lao liberation kip. A monetary unification was carried out in December 1979, replacing the two-currency system that had persisted after the communist takeover of 1975 at a rate designed to disadvantage those who had held larger reserves of the old currency.
The extended date range through 1988 reflects continued use of the same printing plates across nearly a decade rather than multiple distinct issues — not unusual for the early PDR period, when new note production was infrequent and printing contracts limited.