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5000 Dong Bo La Detention Center
| Issuer | Ho Chi Minh City Police Department – Bo La Detention Centre |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 5000 Đồng 5000 VND = CHF 0.15 |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print with matching guilloche border. A central oval guilloche underprint carries the numeral 5.000; the denomination in words appears in a banner at foot with corner value tablets. Spaces for the Accountant and Prison Inspector manuscript signatures are indicated by printed role titles at left and right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | TIỀN PHIẾU NÀY CHỈ CÓ GIÁ TRỊ SỬ DỤNG CHO CAN PHẠM NHÂN KẾ TOÁN GIÁM THỊ 5.000 NĂM NGHÌN ĐỒNG (Translation: This coupon is only valid for use by inmates. Accountant. Prison Inspector. Five thousand dong.) |
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Bo La (Bò Lá) is a detention facility operated under the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, and this note is a form of internal scrip — issued for use within the facility rather than in general circulation. Prison and detention center currencies of this type circulated in Vietnamese correctional facilities during the 1990s, allowing detainees to purchase goods from an internal canteen system under controlled conditions. The issuing authority is institutional rather than governmental in the monetary sense, which places this note firmly outside standard Vietnamese banknote series.
Surviving examples are rare simply because there was no reason to preserve them.