Catalog
100 Dong
| Issuer | Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | VIET NAM DAN CHU CONG HOA |
| Reverse description | Two standing figures — a male worker at left and a female soldier at right — frame a central five-pointed star, with industrial and military vignettes extending to their respective outer edges. The legend MOT TRAM DONG arches across the upper portion, GIAY BAC VIET NAM runs in bold letters along the lower margin, and the denomination numeral 100 appears in the lower left corner alongside Chinese-script and official text blocks. |
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 1950 currency issues came during the First Indochina War, when the Việt Minh government was operating largely in the rural north and along the Chinese border — well outside any functioning central banking infrastructure. Notes of this series were printed under difficult wartime conditions, and the 100 Đồng was among the higher denominations circulated to fund military logistics and administration in liberated zones.
Pick 33 is scarcer than its face value might suggest. Wartime paper stock was inconsistent, and surviving examples frequently show natural foxing or moisture damage attributable to storage in the jungle-adjacent conditions of the resistance economy.