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50 Kip World of Adventure - Leif Ericson, Piedfort
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Reference(s) | Schön#59a |
| Obverse description | The national arms of the Lao People's Democratic Republic depicted centrally, featuring Pha That Luang stupa surrounded by a wreath of paddy stalks, with a cogwheel at the base and a ribbon bearing an inscription in Lao script. The denomination '50 KIP' appears in the lower field. The circular legend 'THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' runs along the upper rim in Latin script. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "World of Adventure" series from Laos in the 1990s was one of dozens of collector-targeted foreign licensing programs where small nations with negligible numismatic traditions issued coins bearing no meaningful connection to their own history. Laos and Leif Ericson have nothing to do with one another. The piedfort format — double the standard flan thickness — exists here purely to justify a higher issue price to collectors.
Ericson's landfall at L'Anse aux Meadows, confirmed archaeologically only in 1960, remains the sole hard evidence of Norse presence in North America circa 1000 AD.