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500 Kip Kouprey
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 500 Kip |
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| Obverse lettering | THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 500 KIP |
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| Reverse lettering | KOUPREY 1998 |
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The kouprey (Bos sauveli) was declared Laos's national animal in 1982, yet by the time this coin was struck it had almost certainly already been driven to extinction — the last confirmed sighting dates to 1983, with the population devastated by decades of war, habitat loss, and hunting across the forests of Indochina. No living specimen has been verified since.