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100 Ðồng
| Issuer | Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1950-1951 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | VIET NAM DAN CHU CONG HOA TIN PHIEU 100 MOT TRAM DONG DAI DIEN CHINH PHU TRUNG UONG DAI DIEN UY HOI TRUNG BO |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 MOT TRAM DONG 壹佰元 |
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This note belongs to the second major emission of the Viet Minh financial apparatus, issued during the intensifying phase of the First Indochina War while the Democratic Republic of Vietnam controlled no major urban center and operated its treasury from jungle administrative zones. Printing was carried out under difficult conditions using locally available equipment, which accounts for the inconsistent ink registration and paper quality that runs throughout the entire P#53 series.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam had been issuing its own currency since 1946 partly to sever economic dependence on the Indochinese piastre — a political calculation as much as a monetary one. Notes from this emission circulated primarily in liberated rural zones, and surviving examples frequently show the heavy fold wear consistent with being carried in field conditions rather than handled in commercial transactions.