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10 Kip Tiger and cubs
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Diameter | 24.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic scene depicting an adult tiger standing alert in three-quarter view occupying the upper right of the field, with two cubs resting in the lower foreground, set against a rocky landscape with stylised foliage to the left. The legend 'ENDANGERED WILDLIFE' curves along the upper periphery, and the date '1991' appears in small numerals to the lower right of the field. |
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Laos issued this coin during a period of cautious economic liberalization following the government's 1986 "New Economic Mechanism" — a shift away from rigid central planning that gradually reopened the country to foreign investment and market activity. Commemorative coinage of this type was largely aimed at international collectors rather than domestic circulation; the Lao kip's purchasing power made coins of this denomination essentially symbolic at home.
The Indochinese tiger population had already collapsed dramatically by 1991, which lends the subject an inadvertent documentary quality.