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100 Ðồng B
| Issuer | Ngân Hàng Ngoại Thương Việt Nam (Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Value | 100 Ðồng |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in light blue on a fine line underprint, with a vignette of a large neoclassical government or bank building occupying the right-centre of the note. At the left, a circular Vietcombank monogram seal incorporates the English legend 'BANK FOR FOREIGN TRADE OF VIETNAM' and 'VIETCOMBANK'. The overall design is restrained, relying on the architectural vignette and guilloche background for visual structure. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK FOR FOREIGN TRADE OF VIETNAM VIETCOMBANK |
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The Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam — Vietcombank — was not a central bank but a specialized state institution handling foreign exchange and international settlements. Issuing its own banknotes was unusual for such an entity, and this series reflects the peculiar segmentation of Vietnam's banking system during the late doi moi transition period, when the state maintained strict separation between domestic and foreign-trade monetary channels.
The 1987 date places this note squarely in the year doi moi reforms were formally launched, though the foreign trade banking apparatus predated those changes considerably. Pick catalogs only a handful of Vietcombank issues, and the series never circulated widely outside controlled foreign-exchange transactions.