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1 Piastre Vietnam Issue

Issuer Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam
Year 1954
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Size 128 × 80 mm
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Obverse description The obverse is printed in blue and green intaglio on a fine guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of a tropical forest landscape showing tall hardwood trees at left and right flanking a background of palm trees and dense jungle canopy rendered in green. The issuer's title in French runs across the top in bold letterpress, with the denomination UNE PIASTRE set in large type at centre. Two manuscript signatures appear below the denomination under the titles LE PRESIDENT and UN ADMINISTRATEUR, and an anti-counterfeiting legend is printed along the lower border.
Obverse lettering INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE DU LAOS ET DU VIETNAM
UNE PIASTRE
LE PRESIDENT
UN ADMINISTRATEUR
LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS EN VIGUEUR
(Translation: Issuing Institute of the States of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, One Piastre, The President, An Administrator, The counterfeiter will be punished in accordance with the laws in force)
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