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5000 Kip St. Thomas Aquinas
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | THOMAS VON AQUIN 1225 - 1274 1999 |
| Edge | Smooth |
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Thomas Aquinas died in 1274 at the Cistercian abbey of Fossanova, reportedly while dictating a commentary on the Song of Songs — an oddly intimate end for scholasticism's great systematizer. Why the Lao PDR, a one-party communist state, chose to commemorate a Dominican friar and Doctor of the Catholic Church on a 1999 silver issue is not documented in any mint release. The coin belongs to a broader run of Lao commemoratives from this period aimed squarely at the collector export market, with no intended domestic circulation.