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| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Lao |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.