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=== Pathet Lao Kip (1976) <span class="anchor" id="LAJ"></span>===
The [[Pathet Lao]] introduced the "liberation kip" on 12 October 1968, for circulation in the areas that the group controlled. Banknotes for the liberation kip, which were printed in [[China]], consisted of ₭1, ₭10, ₭20, ₭50, ₭100, ₭200 and ₭500.<ref name="bnb-20190524">{{cite book|editor1-last=Linzmayer|editor1-first=Owen|title=The Banknote Book|date=24 May 2019|publisher=Owen Linzmayer|pages=10–12|chapter=Laos}}</ref>
According to the Pathet Lao's media outlet ''Siang Pasason'', one liberation kip was worth 6 royal kip on 20 August 1975, three days before the Pathet Lao entered [[Vientiane]].<ref name="pasason-19750820">{{cite journal|author1=Siang Pasason|title=Economic progress made since liberation|journal=Translations on South and East Asia|date=20 August 1975|volume=604|pages=44–45|ref=JPRS 66409|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service|location=Arlington|oclc=875577232}}</ref> Based on historic exchange rates provided by the [[International Monetary Fund]], one US dollar in 1975 was worth 725 royal kip or 120.83 liberation kip.<ref name="imf-rate">{{cite web|author1=International Monetary Fund|title=Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)|url=https://api.worldbank.org/v2/en/indicator/PA.NUS.FCRF?downloadformat=excel|website=The World Bank Data|publisher=The World Bank|access-date=16 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216175201/https://api.worldbank.org/v2/en/indicator/PA.NUS.FCRF?downloadformat=excel|archive-date=16 December 2022|location=Washington, D.C.|format=XLS|date=2021}}</ref>
In 1976, the new communist Laotian government replaced the royal kip with the liberation kip. The exchange rate was 20 royal kip per liberation kip.<ref name="bnb-20190524"/> A currency confiscation was carried out, where individuals could exchange up to 100,000 royal kip for liberation kip, and businesses up to one million royal kip
=== {{anchor|LAK}}Lao PDR Kip (1979) ===
On 16 December 1979, the former Pathet Lao
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