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50 Kip Sauroctonus
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic depicted at center, featuring a stylised landscape with paddy fields, a road, forest, and hydroelectric dam, surmounted by a hammer and sickle within a cogwheel and flanked by sheaves of rice tied with a ribbon; a five-pointed star appears at the apex. The encircling legend 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' runs along the upper periphery in Latin characters, while the denomination '50 KIP' is inscribed in the lower field below the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "Sauroctonus" — Apollo as the lizard-slayer — is a subject drawn from a famous antique sculpture, known primarily through a Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze attributed to Praxiteles. Laos issued this coin as part of a broader 1990s series leveraging classical antiquity themes for the collector market, a common strategy among small nations using foreign minting houses to generate hard currency from numismatic exports rather than domestic circulation.
These pieces never circulated. The entire mintage was directed at European and Asian collector markets.