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50 000 Kip - Savang Vatthana That Luang Temple
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bust of King Savang Vatthana in military uniform adorned with a decorative collar and insignia, occupying the upper portion of the field. Below the effigy, a central emblematic device depicting a three-headed elephant (erawan) beneath a parasol, flanked by two ceremonial stupas on each side, representing the royal arms of Laos. Lao script legend curves along the left rim, while the French inscription ROYAUME DU LAOS arcs along the right rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | ພຣະຣາຊອານາຈັກລາວ / ROYAUME DU LAOS |
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This coin marks one of the most politically charged issues in Laotian numismatic history. Struck in the final months of the constitutional monarchy, it was authorized under Savang Vatthana — the last king of Laos — before the Pathet Lao seized full power in December 1975 and abolished the throne. The king abdicated on 2 December 1975; the regime that replaced him would later confine him to a re-education camp in Vieng Xai, where he died, almost certainly in 1978.
Few issues so precisely bracket a political collapse.