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20 Kip Anniversary of the PDR
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Currency | Lao PDR Kip (1979-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the bold numeral '20' prominently displayed in the upper central field, flanked on either side by symmetrical stylized flame-and-leaf decorative devices. Below the numeral, the denomination in Lao script is inscribed centrally, followed by the issue year '1985' in Latin numerals at the base. The entire design is enclosed within a raised beaded inner border, with a broad plain rim. |
| Reverse script | Lao |
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The 1985 issue marks the tenth anniversary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, proclaimed on December 2, 1975, following the Pathet Lao's consolidation of power after the fall of Vientiane. The newly established socialist government had spent much of its first decade dismantling the royal monetary system and aligning its financial institutions with Soviet and Vietnamese models.
Collector-oriented issues like this one were largely produced for the export market through the Vorderasiatische Münzhandlung and similar intermediaries, seeing negligible domestic circulation in a country where hard currency was tightly controlled.