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1000 Kip Qinghai - Tibet Railway
| Issuer | Laos |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | QINGHAI - TIBET RAILWAY · GOLMUD · TANGGULA - PASS · LHASA · XUEYU SHENHAO · 2008 |
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Laos issued this coin as a commemorative tied to the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, which had opened in July 2006 after decades of engineering debate over whether a standard-gauge line could survive the permafrost of the Tibetan Plateau above 4,000 meters. The project required the invention of new refrigeration techniques to stabilize embankments. Lao involvement is purely nominal — these pieces were produced for the international collector market under licensing arrangements common to small-state commemorative programs of the period.