South Vietnamese đồng
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗South Vietnamese đồng
This currencyChildren 0
Later adoption of an existing currency is explained below.
Trace its ancestry backward
South Vietnamese đồng
Indochinese piastre
Mexican peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
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]
Replacement by an existing currency
This conversion belongs to the history of the retiring unit. It does not make that unit an ancestor of the currency adopted.
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025
- Council of Government, Vietnam · Decision 87-CP, 25 April 1978
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“South Vietnamese đồng.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V22-SOUTH-VIETNAM-DONG.html