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50 Kip Asian Elephant
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Lao PDR Kip (1979-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic displayed centrally in the field, featuring a landscape with paddy fields, a road, forest, and a hydroelectric dam, surmounted by a hammer and sickle overlaid by a five-pointed star, the whole flanked by sheaves of rice tied with ribbons bearing inscriptions in Lao script. The circular legend 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' runs along the upper periphery in Latin characters, with the denomination '50 KIP' inscribed along the lower border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Lao |
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Laos issued a series of wildlife-themed silver coins through the early 1990s largely as foreign currency earners rather than circulating money — the domestic economy ran on kip notes, and these pieces were sold almost exclusively to overseas collectors through international distributors. The Asian elephant had particular significance as a national symbol dating to the old Kingdom of Lan Xang, the "Kingdom of a Million Elephants," though by 1993 wild populations in the country were already under severe pressure from habitat loss.
KM#48 is sometimes conflated with related elephant issues from neighboring Myanmar struck in the same period, but the Lao series is distinguishable by distributor documentation and packaging.