50 Kip Sauroctonus

The "Sauroctonus" — Apollo as the lizard-slayer — is a subject drawn from a famous antique sculpture, known primarily through a Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze attributed to Praxiteles. Laos issued this coin as part of a broader 1990s series leveraging classical antiquity themes for the collector market, a common strategy among small nations using foreign minting houses to generate hard currency from numismatic exports rather than domestic circulation.

These pieces never circulated. The entire mintage was directed at European and Asian collector markets.