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10 Đồng Water Buffalo
| Issuer | Vietnam |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold, finely detailed frontal portrait of a water buffalo head occupies the central field, with large curved horns extending to either side. The legend BẢO VỆ THIÊN NHIÊN arcs along the upper periphery, and the Vietnamese word TRÂU (Buffalo) is inscribed along the lower periphery. A small mint mark device appears to the right of the buffalo's chin in the lower field. |
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Vietnam's 1986 coinage was struck during the worst years of the pre-Đổi Mới economic crisis, when triple-digit inflation and chronic food shortages were actively destabilizing the government's central planning model. The following year, the Sixth National Congress would formally adopt the reform package that liberalized the economy — making this issue one of the last produced under the old command-economy monetary regime.
The buffalo's inclusion was not decorative sentiment. Agricultural collectivization had by then largely failed, and the water buffalo remained the primary draft animal for the rice paddies that the state depended on to feed the country.