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500 Kip Karl Marx
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a facing bust of Karl Marx with his characteristic voluminous beard and formal attire, set against a radiant sunburst background of alternating polished and frosted rays. To the right of the portrait, a facsimile of the title page of his seminal work A Critique of Political Economy is depicted in relief, accompanied by a facsimile of Marx's cursive signature above it. The commemorative legend 200TH BIRTHDAY KARL MARX arcs across the upper field, while the inscription ONE OUNCE FINE SILVER 999 runs along the lower left border. The design is enclosed by a beaded inner border. |
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Laos issued this coin in a series of ideological portrait pieces that sit awkwardly at the intersection of communist iconography and the hard-currency collectibles market — pieces sold in proof finish to Western and Asian numismatic buyers while the domestic population uses banknotes bearing similar imagery. Marx himself never visited Asia, and the Lao PDR's theoretical alignment with Marxist-Leninist doctrine has coexisted since 1986 with the Chinthanakan Mai economic reforms that quietly reintroduced market mechanisms.