₫5000 — Five Thousand Dong
The artwork
Front: Hồ Chí Minh in later life, bearded and in a plain collarless jacket, set in an oval frame at the right with a lotus blossom beneath him and the date 1991 below that. The state emblem — star, rice ears and cogwheel — sits at the upper left, with the country's full name, Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam, arched across the top. Serial number in red, twice. The value reads 5000 and Năm Nghìn Đồng.
Back: The Trị An hydroelectric station on the Đồng Nai river: powerhouse and sluice gates under construction, gantry cranes overhead, and a march of lattice pylons carrying transmission lines away over the hills to the left. Blue-grey engraving on olive and cream. Ngân Hàng Nhà Nước Việt Nam runs along the top in a patterned panel, with 5000 in each corner and Năm Nghìn Đồng repeated at lower left.
In circulation
A 1991-dated note of the reformed đồng, put into circulation in the early 1990s. Unlike the higher values, which moved to polymer from 2003, the 5,000 đồng was never redesigned — it remains legal tender and is still handed over daily in markets, though inflation has reduced it to small change.
Details
- IssuerNgân Hàng Nhà Nước Việt Nam (State Bank of Vietnam)
- CurrencyDong (₫)
- DenominationFive Thousand Dong
- Collectedon the Vietnam journey, 2009
- SeriesDated 1991
- SecurityRed serial number printed twice on the face, two-letter prefix (AM); see-through diamond register device at the left of the face and right of the back