2 Hào

This note is part of the provisional series issued immediately after reunification in 1975, when the State Bank needed a stopgap currency for the newly liberated South before a unified national issue could be prepared. The hào denominations in this series were printed in small sizes on relatively thin stock and were among the shortest-lived issues in Vietnamese monetary history — the unified Đồng series of 1978 replaced them within three years.

The 2 hào was effectively a fractional instrument in a period of severe inflation, which made low-denomination paper nearly pointless in practice.