Catalog
200 Đồng
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Size | 168 × 83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio on multicolour underprint, with the bank headquarters building rendered as the central right-side vignette and the state emblem positioned at left. Red serial numbers appear at upper left and lower right, flanked by spelled-out denomination rosettes and ornamental guilloche work. Two signature lines at bottom identify the Tổng Kiểm-Tra (Chief Inspector) and Thủ-Quỷ Trung-Ương (Central Cashier). |
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| Reverse description | Purple intaglio on green and red multicolour underprint, with a central vignette of fishing boats at sea enclosed within ornamental guilloche borders. Denomination rosettes occupy either side of the design, and a penal warning inscription against counterfeiting runs along the lower margin. |
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The National Bank of Vietnam contracted the American Bank Note Company for several of its early issues, this being among them. ABNC's New York engravers produced work of considerably higher technical quality than the South Vietnamese government could have sourced domestically at the time, a practical necessity for a young central bank trying to establish credibility against a population still partly accustomed to French Indochinese piastres.
Pick 9 is the least frequently encountered denomination of the 1958 series in higher circulated grades, with heavy wear concentrated along horizontal fold lines — a consequence of how larger-value notes were typically stored folded in markets and carried by traders rather than held flat.