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70 000 Kip Butterfly
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large butterfly with holographic iridescent wings is depicted in high relief at the centre-upper field, its open wings rendered in shifting colours through a holographic insert. Below and surrounding it, a group of smaller butterflies and moths are shown in matte relief, filling the lower field in a naturalistic scatter composition. The Cyrillic inscription 'С ПРАЗДНИКОМ!' (Happy Holiday!) arcs along the upper rim in bold raised letters against the mirrored proof field. |
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Laos has issued a steady stream of collector-oriented silver pieces since the 1990s, most produced under contract by European minting houses — Austria's Münze Österreich and the Bavarian State Mint have both handled Lao commissions. The 70,000 kip face value is purely nominal; at issuance it represented a fraction of the silver's melt value, a common convention in modern bullion-adjacent commemoratives where the stated denomination carries no transactional intent.