Currency history
Lao kip
Lao kip: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- LAK
- Ancestry branch
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Where this money came from
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DocumentedQualified
This currency also received later contributions, distinguished below from its origins.
Later contribution
Royal / Vientiane kip1976DocumentedLater contribution or absorption
This currencyLAK
Lao kipNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The present kip was introduced in 1979 at one new kip per 100 liberated kip. [1]
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“Lao kip.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000143.html