5 Ðồng

The April 30 print date embedded in this note is the date — forty years earlier — that Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, ending the war. Printing a note with that date in 1985 was a deliberate political act, not a production coincidence. The reunified government used currency as a vehicle for commemorative messaging throughout the 1980s series.

Low-denomination notes of this period circulated hard in an economy wracked by hyperinflation; by the mid-1980s, a 5 Đồng note bought almost nothing, and the Đổi Mới reforms of 1986 rendered much of the series obsolete within a year of issue.