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500 Ðồng
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Value | 500 Đồng |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the Saigon Governor's Palace rendered in fine intaglio engraving, set against a lightly tinted guilloche underprint in blue and yellow. Dragon motifs frame both lateral borders, and the denomination "500" appears in the upper left and lower right corners. Two manuscript signatures appear below the palace vignette, with title inscriptions "Tổng Kiểm-Soát" and "Giám-Đốc Sở Phát-Hành" designating the respective signatories. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ngân-Hàng Quốc-Gia Việt-Nam Năm Trăm Đồng (Translation: National Bank of Vietnam Five Hundred Đồng) |
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The National Bank of Vietnam's 1962 series was among the first issues to establish a distinctly southern Vietnamese visual identity, produced as the Diem government was actively consolidating its monetary infrastructure in Saigon. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was not incidental — the firm had printed for French Indochina's predecessor institutions, and their contract with the RVN represented a deliberate continuity of technical standards at a moment when the new state needed credibility its central bank could not yet manufacture domestically.
The P#6A designation distinguishes it from the closely related P#6, the difference lying in signature combinations — a minor variation with meaningful implications for completeness in a type collection.