1000 Kip Olympics

Laos produced a steady stream of commemorative silver issues through the early 2000s, most struck under contract at foreign mints and sold almost entirely to the collector market rather than circulating domestically. The 2004 Athens Olympics provided a familiar licensing hook used by dozens of small-nation issuers that year, coordinated through agreements that allowed non-participating or minimally participating nations to generate hard currency revenue from numismatic sales.

Laos sent no athletes to Athens 2004.