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100 Dong
| Issuer | Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VIET NAM DAN CHU CONG HOA |
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| Reverse lettering | MOT TRAM DONG GIAY BAC VIET NAM |
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 1950 currency issues came during the First Indochina War, when the Việt Minh government was operating largely in the rural north and along the Chinese border — well outside any functioning central banking infrastructure. Notes of this series were printed under difficult wartime conditions, and the 100 Đồng was among the higher denominations circulated to fund military logistics and administration in liberated zones.
Pick 33 is scarcer than its face value might suggest. Wartime paper stock was inconsistent, and surviving examples frequently show natural foxing or moisture damage attributable to storage in the jungle-adjacent conditions of the resistance economy.