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100 Kip
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 1979-1988 |
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| Currency | Lao PDR Kip (1979-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ ໑໐໐ (Translation: Lao People's Democratic Republic 100) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 100 Kip P#30 belongs to the first proper banknote series issued under the Lao People's Democratic Republic following the 1975 communist takeover and the abolition of the Royal Lao Government's monetary system. The new regime initially relied on the kip libéré — a currency already circulating in Pathet Lao-controlled zones — before consolidating under the Bank of the Lao PDR and issuing a unified national series.
The extended date range of nearly a decade reflects low print volumes and slow absorption into an economy that remained heavily subsistence-based and partially dollarized along the Mekong corridor throughout the 1980s.