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
- 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
- Country
- State of Vietnam
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Tran van Huu Government
- Leader
- Tran van Huu
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Art Hanoi collection), 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
CÔNG DỤNG DUY NHỨT CŨA GIẤY BẠC HỒ-CHÍ-MINH
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.
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