5 Đồng PoW camps

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.