2000 Kip Panthera Tigris

Laos has no wild tiger population to speak of — the last confirmed sightings of Indochinese tigers within Lao borders date to the early 2000s, and the subspecies is now functionally extinct across most of mainland Southeast Asia. This coin exists squarely within the international bullion and collector market, issued under the kind of wildlife conservation branding that sells well in European and North American numismatic channels regardless of any meaningful domestic connection to the animal depicted.