Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Headquarters of the Republic of Korea Forces in Vietnam |
|---|---|
| Year | 1970 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Dollars |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Green letterpress coupon with guilloche underprint throughout. Central oval vignette contains a bust portrait of Admiral Yi Sun-sin in armoured helmet, his name inscribed on a banner below. Denomination numeral 10 appears at upper left and lower right corners, flanked by circular rosette medallions, with a scrollwork banner carrying the title inscriptions across the top. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 10 10달 5안F 접안 항만시설 (Translation: 10 Dollars. Port loading facilities at 5-anchor berth.) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
A genuinely obscure military scrip issue, this note was produced for use by Republic of Korea (ROK) forces deployed in South Vietnam under the terms of the 1966 Brown Memorandum agreement with the United States. Korean troops — at peak strength numbering over 50,000 — were paid in Military Payment Certificates alongside this ROK-specific scrip, a dual-currency arrangement designed to keep hard currency out of the Vietnamese black market.
The issuing authority, Headquarters of the Republic of Korea Forces in Vietnam (주월한국군사령부), operated independently of the U.S. MPC system, though the two circulated in parallel within ROK base areas. Few examples survived repatriation — most scrip was surrendered or destroyed upon the withdrawal of Korean forces completed in 1973.