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500 Kip 600th Anniversary of the Forbidden City
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF THE LAO PDR 1 OZ Ag 999 500 KIP |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Forbidden City completed construction in 1420 under the Yongle Emperor, who had relocated the imperial capital from Nanjing to Beijing in a politically motivated move that reshaped the administrative geography of China for five centuries. Laos has no historical connection to the complex — this is a bullion-adjacent commemorative struck squarely for the international collector market, a category the Bank of the Lao PDR has leaned into heavily since the 1990s using its sovereign minting rights.
KM#218 is one of several thematically unrelated world-site issues from this period in the Lao series.