10 Đồng

The State Bank of Vietnam — operating under the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the North — issued this note during a period of acute economic pressure following the Geneva Accords. The 1958 series coincided with early collectivization drives in the North, and notes of this period circulated hard through a cash-dependent rural economy with limited banking infrastructure.

The printing date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog record almost certainly reflects a plate or document registration date inherited from an earlier printing authority — it predates the issuing bank's existence by several years and should not be read as the production date for this note.