Catalog
50 000 Kip
| Issuer | Bank of the LAO PDR |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The colored reverse depicts three animated cartoon animal characters — a tricolor dog, a gray cat wearing a green bow tie, and an orange fox with a green hair bow — standing upright on a grassy field with their arms raised in a joyful pose. Behind them rises a stylized cityscape of modern high-rise buildings rendered in silver relief, with the Sber bank logo visible on one of the towers. The scene is applied in full polychrome color over a frosted silver field. The Cyrillic inscription 'Всё для клиента' ('Everything for the Client') curves along the lower periphery, serving as the motto of the Sberbank promotional issue. |
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| Mint | (ММД) Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russia (?-date) |
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| Additional information |
Laos has issued collector silver in this weight class sporadically since the 1990s, most releases tied to regional themes or international commemorative programs rather than domestic monetary policy. The 50,000 kip denomination exists purely as a face-value anchor for legal tender silver — no Lao citizen has ever spent one, and none were intended to circulate.
KM#231 is a recent addition to a catalog that remains poorly documented in Western references; attribution details for post-2015 Lao issues are frequently incomplete or contradicted between major catalogues.