200 Kip - Sisavang Vatthana

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.