Catalog
50 Đồng
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Independence Palace (Dinh Độc Lập) in Saigon, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint. The bank title and denomination appear in Vietnamese script, with the numeral 50 repeated in the corners against ornate lathe-work borders. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The National Bank of Vietnam's relationship with Bradbury Wilkinson stretched across multiple series during the Republic's later years, and this 1972 note arrived when inflationary pressure was already eroding the đồng's purchasing power significantly. The Paris Peace Accords were still a year away, and the wartime economy had long since overtaken any stable monetary footing.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced work of consistent intaglio quality from their New Malden facility, though notes from this period circulated hard and fast in South Vietnam — attrition rates were severe, and clean survivors are genuinely uncommon.