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500 Kip Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 0.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | THE YEAR OF THE RAT 2008 1/2 G .99999 FINEST GOLD |
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Issued as part of a lunar new year bullion series, this piece belongs to a category of small-denomination gold commemoratives that proliferated across Southeast Asian central banks in the 2000s — largely aimed at collector export markets rather than domestic circulation. The five-nines (.99999) fineness is notably purer than the standard .9999 used by most sovereign mints, a specification the Bank of the Lao PDR adopted to compete directly with similar issues from the Royal Canadian Mint.