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70 000 Kip Lake Baikal
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 2017 ММД - Proof |
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Lake Baikal sits in Siberia, not Southeast Asia, which makes its appearance on a Laotian commemorative worth explaining. By the 2010s, the Lao PDR mint program had joined a well-established market for internationally themed silver issues sold primarily to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation — a revenue model common among smaller nations whose own monetary history generates limited numismatic demand.
Baikal holds roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water and is the deepest lake on Earth at over 1,600 meters.