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50 Kip Elasmosaurus and Tylosaurus
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao P.D.R. |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Lao PDR Kip (1979-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ 1994 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of a broader wave of Laotian silver commemoratives issued through the 1990s for the collector export market, this piece had no meaningful domestic circulation — Laos in 1994 was running a parallel economy where the kip held little purchasing power against the dollar and Thai baht. The face value is essentially notional.
Elasmosaurus, the long-necked plesiosaur, was famously misassembled by Edward Drinker Cope in 1868, who placed the skull on the tail end — an error Othniel Charles Marsh gleefully publicized, deepening one of paleontology's most bitter rivalries.