Laos
Laos withdraws new 1,000-kip note
Aug 03, 2009 08:45 AM Category: Asia
I’ve received confirmation from the Bank of the Lao PDR that in November it began withdrawing the 1,000-kip (US$0.10) note which it had introduced just this past October. The bank representative stated only that it was done at “the government’s discretion,” because the note depicts three actual people based upon photographs, not an artist’s rendering of representative women. This low-cost note is not likely to become a modern rarity, but you may want to pick one up for your collection while supplies last and prices are low.
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Laos issues new 1,000-kip note dated 2008
May 09, 2009 11:35 AM Category: Asia
1,000 kip (US$0.10)
Green and blue. Front: Three young women; temple; coat of arms. Back: Dancer; elephant; grazing cattle; power lines. Solid security thread. Watermark: Unknown. Printer: Bank of the Lao PDR (w/o imprint). 2008. No signature. Introduced 30.10.2008.
Download bank press release (in Lao). Translation requested.
This note is also available as a specimen with horizontal red Lao overprint.
Courtesy of Claudio Marana, Thomas Augustsson, and Leszek Porowski.