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500 Kip Marco Polo
| Issuer | Bank of the Lao PDR |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a draped bust of Marco Polo facing left, wearing a turban and robes, holding a scroll or map in his hands. Behind the figure, a stylized cartographic map of Asia is engraved in the field, showing a caravan of camels traversing the Silk Road route, accompanied by a compass rose in the upper right. The curved legend 770TH BIRTHDAY OF MARCO POLO arcs along the upper periphery, with the year 2024 inscribed at the lower right. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Marco Polo passed through the upper Mekong regions in the 1280s during his service to Kublai Khan, and his accounts of mainland Southeast Asia — however embellished — remain among the earliest Western descriptions of the peoples and trade routes that would later fall within modern Laotian territory. Laos has issued collectible silver kip pieces with some regularity since the 1990s, typically targeting the European numismatic market rather than domestic circulation.
KM# 195 is a bullion-adjacent commemorative with no meaningful circulation history.