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10 000 Kip
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 2002-2004 |
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| Value | 10 000 Kip |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Kaysone Phomvihane at center-right, set against a vignette of the Pha That Luang stupa in Vientiane at left; the national coat of arms appears at upper left, with Lao script inscriptions across the upper and lower registers. Decorative guilloche underprint frames the composition in blue and green tones. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque Nationale du Laos issued this high-denomination note during a period of sustained inflation that had eroded the kip's purchasing power severely through the late 1990s — the 10,000 kip denomination, once substantial, had become a workaday transaction note by the time this series entered circulation. Laos had introduced its first 10,000 kip note only in 1992, a threshold that itself marked how far the currency had slipped since the PDR's founding monetary reforms of 1979.
Security remains modest for the denomination — a single watermark, no metallic thread.