2000 Ðông

The 2000 Đồng denomination was introduced as part of Vietnam's monetary reforms following the catastrophic 1985 redenomination, which had wiped out savings and triggered inflation rather than controlling it. By 1987, the State Bank was issuing higher-value notes into an economy where inflation was running at several hundred percent annually — the 2000 Đồng note was already losing purchasing power faster than it could be distributed.

The series was eventually rendered obsolete by the 1991 monetary stabilization program. Cotton-paper notes from this period frequently show accelerated wear due to the high volume of daily transactions they handled in a cash-dependent economy with almost no banking penetration outside major urban centers.