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20 000 Đồng
| Issuer | State Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 2006-2022 |
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| Reference(s) | P#120 |
| Obverse description | An intaglio-printed three-quarter-face vignette of President Hồ Chí Minh occupies the right half of the note against a light blue guilloche underprint, with a colour-shifting ink patch at centre-right serving as a security element. To the left, the Vietnamese national emblem — a five-pointed star above a cog and rice ears — is set within a floral guilloche rosette, flanked by the denomination numeral "20.000" in large multicoloured figures at lower centre. The serial number appears in red at left and in black at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CỘNG HOÀ XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM HAI MƯƠI NGHÌN ĐỒNG 20.000 (Translation: Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Twenty Thousand Đồng) |
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Vietnam's polymer series, introduced progressively from 2003, was produced by Note Printing Australia — a deliberate move away from the cotton-paper notes that had historically suffered badly in the country's humid subtropical climate. The 20,000 đồng has been one of the highest-volume denominations in daily use, filling the gap between small change and the larger notes increasingly needed as inflation compressed purchasing power over the preceding decades.
The polymer substrate holds up well to the conditions, but the colour-shifting ink on this denomination has shown visible wear on heavily circulated examples — the shift degrading noticeably before the substrate itself shows damage.