100 Kip

The Banque Nationale du Laos was established in 1955, just two years after the country gained full independence from France under the Geneva Accords — and French institutional influence didn't evaporate overnight. The Banque de France printed this series, and Marc Leguay, a French artist closely associated with colonial and post-colonial Indochinese currency design, provided the artwork. The arrangement was less a partnership than a continuation of existing infrastructure under a new flag.

P#6 carried a date range across five years of issue, meaning examples exist with meaningfully different signatures reflecting ministerial turnover during an unusually turbulent period in Lao political history — coalition governments collapsed and reformed repeatedly between 1957 and 1962.