Catalog
5 Đồng Unissued
| Issuer | Central Committee of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Size | 128 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Rose-purple note printed on light pink paper with a central vignette of agricultural workers harvesting crops in a field under an open sky. The denomination numeral '5' appears in guilloche rosettes at left and right, with the issuing authority's full inscription in two lines across the upper portion. The value 'NĂM ĐỒNG' is set in bold lettering along the lower border within a decorative frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | NAM ĐỒNG |
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The National Liberation Front's parallel currency program was a genuine administrative undertaking, not propaganda theater. The NLF maintained a clandestine economic structure in contested territories throughout the war, and these notes were prepared as functional instruments for that system. The 5 Đồng bearing the P#R6 designation was never placed into circulation — the series was abandoned before distribution, leaving surviving examples entirely unissued.
Because none reached circulation, condition is almost uniformly high, which tells you nothing about rarity. Print runs are unconfirmed, and the notes' provenance typically traces back to post-1975 archival releases rather than wartime recovery.