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200 Kip - Sisavang Vatthana
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1963-1976 |
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| Value | 200 Kip |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of King Sisavang Vatthana in royal regalia, flanked by Lao script inscriptions and an intaglio-rendered view of the That Luang stupa in Vientiane with palm trees in the background. Intricate guilloche underprint frames the composition, with the denomination numeral appearing at each upper corner. Lao text legends run along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DU LAOS DEUX CENTS KIP LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMÉMENT À LA LOI |
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Pick 13 spans an unusually long print window — the note was authorized under the Royal Lao Government but remained nominally current through years of escalating civil conflict, with the Pathet Lao's eventual takeover in 1975 abruptly ending the entire series. Thomas De La Rue printed the note in London, a common arrangement for Francophone states that had inherited French monetary infrastructure but lacked domestic print capacity after independence.
Sisavang Vatthana was the last king of Laos, abdicating in December 1975 under pressure from the new communist government. He died in a re-education camp, likely in 1978 — making notes bearing his name among the more historically charged pieces of Southeast Asian paper currency from the period.