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Lao kip: research record

Evidence coverage: 1968–1979. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Lao kip

LAK · Research draft

Account-unit continuity supported by the revision 23 source review; a naming, issuer or scale change does not supply a distinct ancestor.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1968–1979; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Royal / Vientiane kipabsorbed into existing currency · 1976 · later absorption or contribution
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Names and unit scales 2 records

These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.

Lao kip1979–1979 · source record FTM000143
Liberation kipUndated–Undated · source record FTM000142
Unit and issue records 4 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Lao Kip — endpoint research dossierFTM000723 · C549
Earlier accounting observation · C1194
Earlier accounting observation · C1194
Earlier accounting observation · C1194

Latest research

Earlier unit continuity

The Liberation kip circulated in a separate Lao zone before national adoption; its 1979 exchange 100 old to 1 new is retained as a rescaling within the modern Lao kip profile. 1968 founding date is research-history report; 1976 existence corroborated by the contemporary World Bank report. Kangkai predecessor boundary not adjudicated.

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Earlier unit continuity

The Liberation kip circulated in a separate Lao zone before national adoption; its 1979 exchange 100 old to 1 new is retained as a rescaling within the modern Lao kip profile. 1968 founding date is research-history report; 1976 existence corroborated by the contemporary World Bank report. Kangkai predecessor boundary not adjudicated.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier unit continuity

The Liberation kip circulated in a separate Lao zone before national adoption; its 1979 exchange 100 old to 1 new is retained as a rescaling within the modern Lao kip profile. 1968 founding date is research-history report; 1976 existence corroborated by the contemporary World Bank report. Kangkai predecessor boundary not adjudicated.

Sources and qualifications →
Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1979Unit rescaling

The present kip was introduced in 1979 at one new kip per 100 liberated kip.

C549
Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C549

The present kip was introduced in 1979 at one new kip per 100 liberated kip.

International Monetary Fund · Lao PDR: Selected Issues, 1997 Citation S283 · Open source ↗

Indexed currency-history paragraph, liberated kip conversion

Source access and limitations

Recover the full report and original reform decree; investigate exchange restrictions and the distinct 1976 Vientiane-kip withdrawal.

Relevant indexed source passage inspected; full-body retrieval failed or yielded a script/block page.

Supported C1172

In June 1976 the Vientiane kip was withdrawn in favour of the separately circulating Liberation kip, at 20:1; the Liberation kip belongs to the modern Lao kip continuity despite its 1979 rescaling. No precise 1976 day asserted.

World Bank, East Asia and Pacific Region · Socialist Transformation in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: An Economic Report, Volume II: Annexes Citation S572 · Open source ↗

Report2282-LA, Annex I p2 para5 (PDF p6); Printed pp92–93, sections2.1–2.2 (PDF pp3–4); DOI10.15017/3000469

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Soutsaka Bounmanit, Economic Studies 136, pp 91–116, Kyushu University · Financial System of the Lao PDR after Introduction of the Pianpeangmai Policy Citation S573 · Open source ↗

Report2282-LA, Annex I p2 para5 (PDF p6); Printed pp92–93, sections2.1–2.2 (PDF pp3–4); DOI10.15017/3000469

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1194

The Liberation kip circulated in a separate Lao zone before national adoption; its 1979 exchange 100 old to 1 new is retained as a rescaling within the modern Lao kip profile. 1968 founding date is research-history report; 1976 existence corroborated by the contemporary World Bank report. Kangkai predecessor boundary not adjudicated.

Soutsaka Bounmanit, Economic Studies 136, pp 91–116, Kyushu University · Financial System of the Lao PDR after Introduction of the Pianpeangmai Policy Citation S573 · Open source ↗

Printed pp92–93, sections2.1–2.2 (PDF pp3–4); DOI10.15017/3000469; Report2282-LA, Annex I p2 para5 (PDF p6)

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

World Bank, East Asia and Pacific Region · Socialist Transformation in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: An Economic Report, Volume II: Annexes Citation S572 · Open source ↗

Printed pp92–93, sections2.1–2.2 (PDF pp3–4); DOI10.15017/3000469; Report2282-LA, Annex I p2 para5 (PDF p6)

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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