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5 Piastres Laos Issue
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Currency | Piastre (1880-1952) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tropical riverside landscape with banana plants to the left and palm fronds to the right, rendered in intaglio on a green guilloche underprint. The denomination CINQ PIASTRES appears in large letterpress type at centre, with the issuing authority INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE DU LAOS ET DU VIETNAM inscribed along the top border. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre above the respective titles UN ADMINISTRATEUR and LE PRESIDENT, with serial number and prefix repeated at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette of Pha That Luang stupa in Vientiane, surrounded by an ornate guilloche frame on a green and multicolour underprint. Lao script inscriptions appear across the top border and in the lower legend, with the denomination rendered in both Lao numerals and the bilingual caption NAM DONG / five piastres in Lao script at centre below the vignette. A large unprinted oval reserve occupies the right half of the note, bordered by decorative scrollwork. |
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The Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam was a transitional institution — created in 1952 as France negotiated its way out of Indochina, it replaced the Banque de l'Indochine as the note-issuing authority for the three Associated States. This Laos-designated issue is part of that brief window, after nominal sovereignty was granted but before each country established its own central bank. Laos got the Banque Nationale du Laos in 1955, which rendered these notes obsolete within two years of printing.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled much of the transitional series across all three states, with country-specific overprints or designated text differentiating otherwise shared plate work.