10 Đồng

The 1985 Vietnamese currency reform was one of the most abrupt monetary resets of the postwar period — the government gave citizens just three days to exchange old dong for new at a rate of 10 to 1, with strict limits on how much any household could convert. Notes like this one entered circulation almost simultaneously with that public panic, in a country still running a command economy under severe shortages and rationing.

The State Bank issued this series domestically, printed in the Soviet Union. Inflation rendered the low denominations functionally worthless within a few years, well before the Đổi Mới reforms of 1986 began restructuring the economy.