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5 Đồng
| Issuer | Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1946-1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A full-length vignette of a standing worker raising his arm, set against an industrial background with factory buildings and smokestacks at left-centre. Two signature panels appear at right, one for the Minister of Finance (Bộ Trưởng Bộ Tài Chính) and one for the Director of the Central Treasury (Giám Đốc Ngân Khố Trung Ương), flanking a large numeral "5" at far right. The denomination NĂM ĐỒNG is printed in bold lettering along the lower margin, with serial number and series letter repeated at multiple corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | VIỆT NAM DÂN CHỦ CỘNG HOÀ GIẤY BẠC VIỆT-NAM NĂM ĐỒNG BỘ TRƯỞNG BỘ TÀI-CHÍNH GIÁM ĐỐC NGÂN KHỐ TRUNG ƯƠNG (Translation: Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Vietnamese Banknote, Five Đồng, Minister of Finance, Director of the Central Treasury) |
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam issued its first independent currency in late 1946, just weeks after the outbreak of the Franco-Vietnamese War. These earliest notes were produced under extraordinarily difficult conditions — the nascent government lacked access to sophisticated printing infrastructure, and production shifted between locations as French military pressure intensified. The result is a series with considerable variation in paper quality, ink consistency, and watermark clarity across surviving examples.
Pick 4 is among the first emissions of a government that had existed for barely a year when it began issuing its own currency to replace colonial piastres — a deliberate act of economic separation from French Indochina's monetary system.