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5000 Dong Bo La Detention Center
| Issuer | Ho Chi Minh City Police Department – Bo La Detention Centre |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper with a decorative guilloche border. Central vignette shows two stylised lions flanking a column, with the denomination 5.000 in large numerals above. Issue authority inscriptions appear at top, date at lower left, and denomination in words within a banner at foot; serial number and prefix in red at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CÔNG AN TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH TRẠI TẠM GIAM BỐ LÁ TIỀN PHIẾU 5.000 PHÁT HÀNH NĂM 1999 NĂM NGHÌN ĐỒNG (Translation: Ho Chi Minh City Police Department. Bo La Detention Centre. Money voucher. Issued in the year 1999. Five thousand dong.) |
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Bo La (Bò Lá) is a detention facility operated under the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, and this note is a form of internal scrip — issued for use within the facility rather than in general circulation. Prison and detention center currencies of this type circulated in Vietnamese correctional facilities during the 1990s, allowing detainees to purchase goods from an internal canteen system under controlled conditions. The issuing authority is institutional rather than governmental in the monetary sense, which places this note firmly outside standard Vietnamese banknote series.
Surviving examples are rare simply because there was no reason to preserve them.