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500 Kip Panthera Tigris
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF THE LAO PDR 20g Ag 999 500 KIP |
| Reverse description | Finely engraved frontal portrait of a Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) advancing toward the viewer, rendered with detailed fur texture and a powerful, alert expression. The animal is depicted emerging from a naturalistic setting with foliage elements in the lower field, set against a deeply mirrored proof background. The legend PANTHERA TIGRIS • 999 SILVER arcs along the upper periphery, with the mintmaster's mark f15 positioned in the upper right field. The date 2018 is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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The Indochinese tiger — the subspecies native to Laos — is functionally extinct in the country, with no confirmed wild population remaining as of recent surveys. This coin was issued the same year the IUCN estimated fewer than 2,500 mature Indochinese tigers survived across all remaining range states combined, most of them in Thailand's Western Forest Complex.
Bank of the Lao PDR has produced a consistent stream of wildlife-themed silver issues for the collector market since the 1990s, virtually none intended for domestic circulation.