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500 Kip Panthera Tigris
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 500 Kip |
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| Reverse description | A full-bodied tiger (Panthera tigris) is depicted at centre, facing slightly left with a commanding stance, its stripes rendered with fine engraving detail against a plain field. Rocky or vegetal elements frame the lower portion of the design. The legend PANTHERA TIGRIS curves along the upper periphery in raised letters, and the date 2018 appears in the lower exergue. A beaded border frames the entire composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | PANTHERA TIGRIS 2018 |
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The Lao PDR has issued a long-running series of small-format 14-karat gold pieces targeting the collector bullion market rather than domestic circulation. At half a gram, these were never intended to pass through Laotian commerce — they exist almost entirely for export sale through numismatic distributors, particularly in Southeast Asia and Europe.
The Indochinese tiger subspecies (*Panthera tigris corbetti*) once ranged across Laos but is now functionally extinct there in the wild, with the last confirmed sightings dating to the early 2000s.