50 Đồng

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.