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500 Ðồng
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ngân-Hàng Quốc-Gia Việt-Nam Năm Trăm Đồng (Translation: National Bank of Vietnam Five Hundred Đồng) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The National Bank of Vietnam's 1962 series was among the first issues to establish a distinctly southern Vietnamese visual identity, produced as the Diem government was actively consolidating its monetary infrastructure in Saigon. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was not incidental — the firm had printed for French Indochina's predecessor institutions, and their contract with the RVN represented a deliberate continuity of technical standards at a moment when the new state needed credibility its central bank could not yet manufacture domestically.
The P#6A designation distinguishes it from the closely related P#6, the difference lying in signature combinations — a minor variation with meaningful implications for completeness in a type collection.