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50 Kip Winter Olympics - Ice dancers
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic depicted in high relief at center, featuring a stylised landscape with a road, paddy fields, forest, and a hydroelectric dam, surmounted by a hammer and sickle beneath a five-pointed star, the whole flanked by rice sheaves and bound at the base by a decorative ribbon bearing Lao script inscriptions. The encircling legend reads 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' along the upper periphery, with the denomination '50 KIP' displayed in the lower field. The coin exhibits deeply mirrored proof fields with extensive frosting on the devices. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 50 KIP |
| Reverse description | Two stylised silhouetted ice dancers in full skating pose face one another at centre, their hands joined, set against an ornate background of a large snowflake motif and flowing decorative curves evoking movement on ice. Molecular-style snowflake ornaments appear in the lower left and right fields. The upper legend arcs 'XVI WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES' with 'ALBERTVILLE' and the year '1992' inscribed below in the upper field, while the mintage year '1989' appears to the lower right in the field. |
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