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You’ll want to have good information, and work with a leading dealer.

Whether you’re buying the Dong for your collection of colorful world currencies, or whether you’re looking toward future currency exchange with a top dealer such as Currency Liquidator. 

Over the past few years the Vietnamese economy and the Dong have begun to attract plenty of attention from observers, mostly because of the economy’s rapid growth rate.

An increasing number of people worldwide are discovering Vietnam’s economic success story. Observers point to the fact thatVietnam has overtaken China and other Asian nations with regard to growth in most sectors.

Two Past Vietnam Currency Revaluations

In 1946 Vietnam held its first elections for the National Assembly, and it also introduced the đồng to replace the French piastre at par value, that is, 1:1 with each đồng equal to one piastre.

The early đồng went through two revaluations:

• In 1951 The first revaluation changed the rate so that one đồng was worth 100 piastres
• Again in 1958 the second revaluation made each đồng worth 1,000 piastres.

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During this era, France continued to exert influence in the country’s political landscape. Eventually there were also circulating banknotes dually-denominated in both piastres and đồng.

By late 1946 Vietnamese nationalist groups were at open war with the French, in what was called the Indochina War.

Realizing that the era of colonialism was almost over, in order to preserve its influence France helped create a semi-autonomous State of Vietnam as a member of the French Union.

The short-lived state was led by Bảo Đại, the thirteenth and final emperor of the last dynasty in Vietnam. Before being chosen as a puppet by the French, between 1926 to 1945 Bảo Đại was King of Annam, a tiny principality neighboring Vietnam.

After suffering a decisive defeat in 1954, France gave up its colonial holdings in Indochina. However, once the French were expelled, Vietnam was separated into two political rival nations.

The 1954 peace agreement left Vietnam divided into the Communist North backed by the Soviet Union and the South with a republican government backed by the U.S.

Vietnam’s economy: How It Affects the Dong

Vietnam’s economy has been expanding rapidly during the past few years. The country is rated as having Asia’s fastest-growing economy year after year. And, the pace of development and wealth-building in Vietnam is far greater than in China’s now-sluggish economy.

Over the past few years Vietnam’s economy has grown between 6% to 10% per year, which is remarkable when compared with other countries in the region.

The nation is blessed with abundant natural resources of its own, especially crude oil. And, Vietnam is also self-sufficient in agriculture, with large-scale production of:

• rice
• cotton
• coffee
• rubber
• cashews
• soybeans
• sugarcane
• bananas
• peanuts

Most importantly, unlike most other resource-rich nations Vietnam also boasts an innovative, cost-competitive manufacturing sector as well.

Vietnam has a unique advantage in that the country has abundant natural resources, including:

• Gas
• Oil
• Forest Products

yet it also has a strong technology and manufacturing business sector.

The country is a manufacturing hub for the entire region, and it produces huge quantities of electronics and technology products for export. Companies such as:

• Samsung
• LG
• Intel
• Sony

This diverse industrial sector gives the economy a broad base to cushion the Vietnamese people from the shocks of a too-narrow economic base.

For example, a nation such as Iraq relies on a single product, oil, for the majority of its economic activity. In contrast, Vietnam enjoys a much broader industrial base.

In any event, the nation’s economy is booming and there’s plenty of new development underway everywhere.

Still, although the Vietnamese economy continues to outperform its neighbors throughout Asia, the foreign-exchange rate for the Dong hasn’t kept up.

The Dong’s value has stayed about the same during the past few years, even while the country’s economy has improved dramatically.

Ultimately, the value of a nation’s currency is based on the overall strength of the economy, including the balance between wealth from natural resources and manufacturing capability.

Vietnam is perfectly positioned for a better economic future, which is why so many people are so enthusiastic about the economy.

The Vietnamese economy is stable and growing steadily. Between 2007 and 2014 the economy nearly doubled its output. Vietnamese citizens’ income levels are rising, and the middle class is growing quickly.

And, there has also been slow, steady progress in implementing anti-corruption measures at the local, regional and national levels of government. The government appears fully committed to reforming the banking sector and other regulated industries.

Exports of manufactured products are increasing yearly. Due to superior quality and affordability, many international manufacturers outsource their most important components from Vietnamese manufacturers. The country is especially well-known for the quality of its mobile phone components and parts.

Before the surge in electronics manufacturing, Vietnamese export industries were mostly focused on clothing, textiles and shoes. In any event, both the U.S. and China have long been the two most important trading partners with Vietnam.

Nowadays, inflation has fallen to a sleepy 3% and in spite of occasional hiccups the government treasury has been fat with cash and continuously been carrying a hefty foreign-reserve balance for the past few years.

Vietnam seems likely to lead the region in growth for at least the next decade.

Vietnamese Dong notes and denominations

The Vietnamese Dong (Symbol: VND) is Vietnam’s official currency today. It’s been issued since 1978. It follows in the footsteps of the original đồng, which was issued during the Viet Minh administration beginning in 1946 in order to replace the French colonial government’s piastre.

The modern root word đồng is derived from the old Vietnamese words đồng tiền,which come from the ancient Chinese term for “money.” Nowadays, in English it’s simply called the Dong by its fans.

The Dong is backed by Vietnam’s strong economy, which has an exceptionally rapid growth rate. By good luck, Vietnam is located at the crossroads of Asian commerce. The country has large foreign-exchange reserves, so the Dong is well supported.

The value of Vietnam’s currency has been arbitrarily devalued several times during the past few years. Many observers nowadays believe the country’s red-hot economy has far outgrown its currency’s value.

Dong banknotes nowadays feature world-class anti-counterfeiting measures. In 2003 Vietnam replaced the older cotton notes with state-of-the-art plastic polymer notes which last far longer.

As long as you buy Dong from a top-rated dealer that provides authenticity guarantees, there is very little danger of counterfeits.

Vietnamese Dong banknotes and coins have been produced in a wide range of denominations. Today, the same as in other nations which have been faced with inflation, Vietnamese consumers and business people tend to favor using only the higher-denomination banknotes for daily commerce.

Back in 1978 the country’s central bank authority, the State Bank of Vietnam (or Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam) began issuing banknotes in a wide range of values: 5 hào, as well as 1, 5, 10, 20 and also 50-đồng notes. All these first post-war notes were dated as 1976.

In 1980 the government added both 2-đồng and 10-đồng notes, then in 1981 came 30-đồng and 100-đồng notes.

During the political upheaval and business stagnation following the Vietnam War, by 1985 economic instability and inflation led to the discontinuance of the first series of đồng notes.

Inflation forced the State Bank to print a new series of đồng currency in 1985, which ranged in value up to 500 đồng. The same pressures next led the Bank to issue another series of banknotes in 1987 with values from 1,000 to 5,000 đồng.

Finally, notes with face values of 10,000 to 500,000 were printed at intervals during the years 1990, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2006, and some years thereafter.