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50 Kip World Cup Soccer
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic displayed in high relief at centre, featuring the Pha That Luang stupa framed by paddy fields and a stylised industrial cogwheel at the base, all enclosed within a wreath of rice sheaves. A ribbon bearing the country's name in Lao script appears below the arms, flanked by additional Lao script legends. The circular legend THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC arcs along the upper periphery in Latin letters, with the denomination 50 KIP inscribed along the lower border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.