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8000 Kip - Savang Vatthana Coronation
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the royal arms of the Kingdom of Laos: a three-headed elephant (erawan) standing on a five-tiered pedestal beneath a parasol radiating stylised sunbeams, flanked by two ceremonial tiered umbrellas on tall poles. The composition rests on a stepped platform with additional royal regalia at the lower sides. The encircling legend reads in Lao script at left and ROYAUME DU LAOS in French at right, separated by dot stops. The denomination ກີບ 8,000 KIP appears in the lower exergue in Lao script and Latin characters, with the fineness mark 900 struck in the lower field below the central device. |
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Issued to commemorate the coronation of Savang Vatthana, the last king of Laos — though by 1971 the ceremony was largely ceremonial theater. The Pathet Lao had been consolidating power through the 1960s with North Vietnamese backing, and Savang Vatthana's authority over much of his own country was already fictitious. He would abdicate in 1975 under duress, was subsequently interned in a re-education camp in Hua Phan province, and almost certainly died there in the early 1980s, though the Lao PDR never confirmed the circumstances.
The coronation coinage was produced for collectors and foreign sale rather than domestic circulation.