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2000 Dong Bo La Detention Center
| Issuer | Trại Tạm Giam Bố Lá (Bo La Detention Center), Ho Chi Minh City Police Department |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 2000 Đồng 2000 VND = CHF 0.06 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on pale paper with ornate floral corner vignettes and a decorative guilloche border. The denomination "2.000" appears in large bold numerals at centre, flanked by a central decorative motif; issuing authority and institution inscribed above, with "HAI NGHÌN ĐỒNG" in a panel at foot. Red serial number at right. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress print matching the obverse style, with guilloche border and ornate corner pieces. A large scalloped guilloche rosette at centre carries the denomination "2.000"; validity restriction inscription across the top, with "KẾ TOÁN" and "GIÁM THỊ" signature labels flanking the rosette. Two manuscript signatures present; "HAI NGHÌN ĐỒNG" in a panel at foot. |
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Trại tạm giam Bố Lá, operated under the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, issued scrip for internal use within its detention facility. These prison canteen notes — allowing detainees to purchase approved goods without handling state currency — followed a practice common across Vietnamese detention infrastructure in the reform-era prison system, though individual facility issues are rarely documented in mainstream catalogs.
The 1999 date places this squarely in the period following Đổi Mới economic liberalization, when the state detention system increasingly shifted toward self-financing models. Surviving examples are almost entirely absent from Western collections.