Evidence coverage: 1954–1978. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
Southern monetary reckoning was rescaled500old piastres/dong to1new southern dong in September1975. The north and south retained separate currencies after political unification; no1975national merger is inferred.
Sources and qualifications →Decision87-CP converted southern deposits, capital accounts, wages, pensions and prices into nationwide dong at0.80southern dong to1newdong, while northern dong converted1:1. Article8 removes note-only uncertainty. Under no-new-node-for-issuer/scale policy, northern account continuity stays with existingVND; southern account is absorbed. Earlier South Vietnamese phases still require their own evidence.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Southern monetary reckoning was rescaled500old piastres/dong to1new southern dong in September1975. The north and south retained separate currencies after political unification; no1975national merger is inferred.
C1525Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
South Vietnamese đồng → unified đồng, 1978.
VND entry, currency history; Bundesbank PDF, 24 September 2025 edition.
Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.
Only selected country milestones used.
Southern monetary reckoning was rescaled500old piastres/dong to1new southern dong in September1975. The north and south retained separate currencies after political unification; no1975national merger is inferred.
p45 §§4.19–4.20
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Decision87-CP converted southern deposits, capital accounts, wages, pensions and prices into nationwide dong at0.80southern dong to1newdong, while northern dong converted1:1.
Articles2 and8
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full statutory transcription articles 1–12 inspected.
Third-party transcription of original law; not a gazette facsimile.
The shared Indochinese piastre account system separated into the South Vietnamese piastre/dong: its founding central-bank participant describes division of the common balance sheet and debts, continuity of existing financial commitments, and replacement of colonial piastres by dong.
Chapter2 pp26–29,33
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.