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500 Kip Year of the Dragon
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao P.D.R. |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. to mark the 2012 Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac cycle, this piece belongs to a category of Southeast Asian bullion and collector issues that proliferated sharply in the early 2000s as regional central banks pursued hard-currency revenue through numismatic programs. The five-nines fineness is notable — purer than the standard .999 bullion specification and matching the benchmark set by the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf series, which drove competing mints toward that purity threshold from the mid-1990s onward.