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50 Kip World Cup Soccer
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 50 Kip |
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| Obverse lettering | THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 50 KIP |
| Reverse description | A dynamic figure of a football player rendered in bold relief occupies the centre of the field, depicted heading a football with arms outstretched and head raised skyward. A stylised large football appears to the left, while an outline map of Europe and Africa fills the right background, evoking the tournament's host nation. The curved legend XVI WORLD CUP FRANCE arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 1998 inscribed vertically along the right border and the issue year 1996 positioned along the lower border in Latin numerals. |
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Laos issued a wave of commemorative silver pieces throughout the 1990s almost entirely for the collector export market — the domestic economy ran on aluminum and low-denomination base-metal coinage, and these pieces never circulated within the country. The 1994 FIFA World Cup was held in the United States, making a 1996 issue a retrospective commemoration rather than an anticipatory one, a dating quirk common to smaller issuing authorities working through private minting intermediaries of that period.