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50 Kip Endangered Wildlife, Piedfort
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the Lao People's Democratic Republic occupies the central field, depicting a stylised globe overlaid with a road and paddy fields, flanked by sheaves of rice and surmounted by a hammer and sickle below a five-pointed star. Lao-script legends appear on decorative ribbons beneath the central device. The circular legend 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' arcs around the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, while the denomination '50 KIP' is inscribed across the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed composition depicts an adult tiger standing alert in three-quarter view occupying the upper right of the field, its gaze directed to the viewer's left, set against a naturalistic jungle background of trees and foliage rendered in high relief. Two tiger cubs recline playfully in the foreground at the base of the design. The curved legend 'ENDANGERED WILDLIFE' arcs across the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, and the date '1991' appears to the right of the central device. |
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The piedfort format — struck at twice the normal planchet thickness — was adopted here almost certainly for the collector market rather than any monetary function, a common strategy among smaller nations leveraging Western numismatic appetite for wildlife-themed silver in the early 1990s. Laos issued several coins in this endangered species series, coordinating with broader CITES-era conservation awareness that dominated international policy discussions following the 1989 revision of protected species lists.
KM#45 is the piedfort variant; the standard-weight counterpart was struck from identical dies.