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5 Đồng PoW camps
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam (Ngân-hàng Quốc-gia Việt-Nam) |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Printer | Security Banknote Company (SBNC), Philadelphia, United States (?-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on yellow underprint with red serial number; black overprint reads "PHIEU TU BINH CHI NHÁNH SAIGON VIỆT - NAM CỘNG HOÀ". Vignette at left shows a farmer with an ox ploughing a rice paddy. |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print on yellow underprint; central vignette shows a traditional hut on a river bank surrounded by dense tropical vegetation. |
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This 5 Đồng was issued specifically for use in prisoner-of-war camps during the 1954–1955 population transfers that followed the Geneva Accords — the massive, chaotic movement of nearly a million civilians and combatants across the 17th parallel. Camp scrip of this kind was designed to function in a closed economy, preventing the notes from entering general circulation and complicating the still-fragile monetary system of the newly partitioned south.
The Security Banknote Company attribution carries a question mark on date, and physical confirmation of the Philadelphia printing is not fully settled in the literature.