Currency history
South Vietnamese đồng
South Vietnamese đồng: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
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Where this money came from
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This currency
South Vietnamese đồngLater absorptionVND
Vietnamese đồng1978DocumentedLater contribution or absorption
The story
South Vietnamese đồng → unified đồng, 1978. [1]
Decision87-CP converted southern deposits, capital accounts, wages, pensions and prices into nationwide dong at0.80southern dong to1newdong, while northern dong converted1:1. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1152 ↗
- Council of Government, Vietnam · Decision 87-CP, 25 April 1978 C1616 ↗
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“South Vietnamese đồng.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V22-SOUTH-VIETNAM-DONG.html