Catalog
50 Đồng
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | Southern đồng (1953-1975) |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio on multicolour underprint. Leaf tendril vignette at right, with denomination rosette at upper right and spelled-out denomination at upper left. Two-part serial number appears at upper right and lower left, with prefix separated; bank name runs along the lower border, and two signature titles are positioned at centre left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 NGÂN-HÀNG QUỐC-GIA VIỆT-NAM 50 50 HÌNH LUẬT PHẠT KHỔ-SAI NHỮNG KẺ LÀM GIẢ MẠO GIẤY BẠC DO NGÂN-HÀNG QUỐC-GIA VIỆT-NAM PHÁT RA NĂM MƯƠI ĐỒNG (Translation: 50. National Bank of the State of Vietnam. Criminal law sentences one to penal labour for counterfeiting paper money issued by the National Bank of the State of Vietnam. Fifty đồng.) |
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| Comments |
P#17 belongs to the South Vietnamese series printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works during a period when the wartime economy was generating severe inflationary pressure. The National Bank relied heavily on British and American security printers throughout the 1960s, partly because domestic printing capacity was essentially nonexistent and partly because foreign-printed notes were harder to counterfeit — a genuine operational concern given active North Vietnamese efforts to flood the south with forgeries.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on this series is notably fine by regional standards of the period. The firm had a long relationship with Southeast Asian central banks and brought the same plate-engraving discipline they applied to Commonwealth issues.