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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ripley, post: 653084, member: 19199&quot;]Well looks like Ole Desert Gem is the closest.&nbsp; All Royal Lao coinage was made of aluminum in 1953.&nbsp; Shown above are 10/20/50 Kips as they were also called cents.&nbsp; The holes where put in as an afterthought so the design does not center around or include the hole.&nbsp; These were made in the Paris mint to replace the French colonial coinage as they got their Independence.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like the 20 kips best, they used to show up a lot in the 60&#039;s &amp; 70&#039;s in Northern Thailand.&nbsp; The native gals would make jewelry out of them as is their custom, no Lao soldier would go into battle with these noisy things wrapped around a cord.&nbsp; But the true coinage of the area were silver,US Dollar, Thai Baht and opium.&nbsp; Traci[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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