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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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Value 1 Piastre (1 ICFP)
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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)
Reverse description The reverse is printed in terracotta-red and blue-grey, centred on an intaglio vignette of a crouching chinthe (mythical lion-guardian) statue at left, set before a background of traditional Southeast Asian architecture and trees. At centre-right, a decorative Khmer-style oil lamp on a tall pedestal is rendered in blue-grey intaglio. The border is composed of ornate blue-grey geometric and foliate guilloche panels, with denomination numerals in the upper corners and Khmer and Lao script legends in the lower corners.
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