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2000 Kip Dynasty of Million Elephants
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 1.24 g |
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| Reverse description | Two caparisoned elephants are depicted in the central field, shown in profile facing one another beneath a traditional Lao pavilion structure, with a mountainous landscape rendered in the background. The scene evokes the historic Kingdom of Lan Xang, known as the 'Land of a Million Elephants.' The curved legend 'DYNASTY OF MILLION ELEPHANTS' arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, and the date '2000' appears in the lower exergue. A beaded inner border frames the entire composition, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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The "Lane Xang" kingdom — literally "Land of a Million Elephants" — was founded in 1353 by Fa Ngum and endured, in various fractured forms, until the Siamese dismembered what remained in 1707. This small gold piece was issued as part of a broader Lao commemorative program in the late 1990s targeting the collector market, produced well after the communist Pathet Lao had abolished the monarchy entirely in 1975.
At 1.24 grams, the flan is physically tiny — closer in scale to a medieval obol than a modern bullion issue.