1.000 Ðồng

Pick 34A belongs to the final years of the Republic of Vietnam's monetary system, issued as the war's economic strain was already visible in the currency supply. By 1972, inflation was accelerating sharply — the 1,000 Đồng denomination, once a significant sum, had been eroded to everyday transactional use for many South Vietnamese. Giesecke & Devrient, whose Munich facility handled security printing for numerous governments throughout the Cold War period, produced the note on contract.

The series would be rendered obsolete by April 1975, when the Provisional Revolutionary Government announced the replacement of all RVN currency. Redemption was strictly limited, and most notes in circulation at the time of the transition were simply never exchanged.