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title: Công dụng duy nhứt của giấy bạc Hồ-Chí-Minh (The Only Use of Ho Chi Minh's Banknote), leaflet imitating a 50-dong note
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cong-dung-duy-nhut-giay-bac-ho-chi-minh-1951/
description: Small tan leaflet cut to banknote size. A figure in a conical hat crouches in a field holding a small note, next to a scalloped cartouche reading 'The…
section: Collection
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[![Công dụng duy nhứt của giấy bạc Hồ-Chí-Minh (The Only Use of Ho Chi Minh's Banknote), leaflet imitating a 50-dong note](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cong-dung-duy-nhut-giay-bac-ho-chi-minh-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cong-dung-duy-nhut-giay-bac-ho-chi-minh-1951.jpg)

# Công dụng duy nhứt của giấy bạc Hồ-Chí-Minh (The Only Use of Ho Chi Minh's Banknote), leaflet imitating a 50-dong note

Small tan leaflet cut to banknote size. A figure in a conical hat crouches in a field holding a small note, next to a scalloped cartouche reading 'The only use of Ho Chi Minh's banknote'. The tell: the drawing and caption imply the note is fit only for a demeaning use, ridiculing the currency and its namesake (name-calling), on a sheet whose other side copies the note's own reverse (transfer).

- **Date:** 1951
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Unnamed on the sheet; catalogued as a State of Vietnam government leaflet imitating the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 50-dong note
- **Region:** [Southeast Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=southeast-asia)
- **Country:** [State of Vietnam](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=state-of-vietnam)
- **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Tran van Huu Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=tran-van-huu-government)
- **Leader:** [Tran van Huu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=tran-van-huu)
- **Audience:** [Enemy civilians](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=enemy-civilians)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [First Indochina War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=first-indochina-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Art Hanoi collection)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:50_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_-_North_Vietnam_(1951,_propaganda_leaflet)_C%C3%B4ng_d%E1%BB%A5ng_duy_nh%E1%BB%A9t_c%C5%A9a_gi%E1%BA%A5y_b%E1%BA%A1c_H%E1%BB%93-Ch%C3%AD-Minh_01.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Commons tags PD-Vietnam, PD-Old, PD South Vietnam Government; issued 1951) Leaflet on a copy of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam 50-dong note, 1951; via Art Hanoi and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CÔNG DỤNG
DUY NHỨT CŨA GIẤY
BẠC HỒ-CHÍ-MINH
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE ONLY USE
OF HO CHI MINH'S
BANKNOTE
```

Read from the 960 px image. The word 'CŨA' is printed with a tilde-like mark over the U (standard spelling 'CỦA'); the Commons description also gives 'CŨA'. The diacritics on 'DỤNG' and 'NHỨT' are small and were read with less confidence. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 'Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten' (German, help preserve peace): banner on a state farm, Petkus, East Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutscher-hilf-den-frieden-erhalten-petkus-1950/) [ORDER: safe-conduct pass of the Chinese People's Volunteers' Headquarters →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cpv-safe-conduct-order-1951/)

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