I became a 2 millionaire today. 2,000,000 Dong that is and it is just enough to pay for visas on arrival in Vietnam.
I like to have things 'to hand' but this has left me not quite sure how to organise wallets and change purses and bags.
advice given -
Avoid using your credit card. They add 3% commission on top of the rest of the charges. You'll have no problems changing Australian dollars in the gold shops. They give better than bank rate. I do however recommend you bring $100 U.S. in small clean bills until you find your feet.The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has a branch in Saigon. Unlike the ANZ bank this is an actual branch. You can draw 9'000'000 per withdrawal from their auto-teller up to your limit, for $2 Aust per withdrawal.
Also with such high denominations of note, be careful of common scams run by street sellers where you are short changed by a factor of ten (eg as part of your change, you may receive five 200 dong notes as "10,000 VND!").
| Vietnamese dong | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| đồng Việt Nam | |||||
| |||||
| ISO 4217 code | VND | ||||
| Central bank | State Bank of Vietnam | ||||
| Website | www.sbv.gov.vn | ||||
| User(s) | Socialist Republic of Vietnam | ||||
| Inflation | 18.7% | ||||
| Source | 2011 [1] | ||||
| Subunit | |||||
| 1/10 | hào | ||||
| 1/100 | xu both subunits have been unused in Vietnam for several years | ||||
| Symbol | ₫ U+20AB ₫ dong sign (HTML: ₫) | ||||
| Coins | 200₫, 500₫, 1000₫, 2000₫, 5000₫ | ||||
| Banknotes | 100₫, 200₫, 500₫, 1,000₫, 2,000₫, 5,000₫ (these first six are old issue, but still in circulation), 10,000₫, 20,000₫, 50,000₫, 100,000₫, 200,000₫, 500,000₫ | ||||
The word đồng is from the term đồng tiền ("money"), a cognate of the Chinese tóng qián (Traditional Chinese: 銅錢; Simplified Chinese: 铜钱). The term refers to Chinese bronze coins used as currency during the dynastic periods of China and Vietnam. The term hào is a cognate of the Chinese háo(Chinese: 毫), meaning a tenth of a currency unit.
The sign is encoded U+20AB ₫ dong sign
21521.16 VND = $1 ( so I will round it to $1= 20,000 dong)
Exchange rate for converting Australian Dollar to Vietnamese Dong : 1 AUD = 21489.43246 VND
| AUD | VND |
|---|---|
| A$ 1 AUD | ₫ 21,489.43 VND |
| A$ 5 AUD | ₫ 107,447.16 VND |
| A$ 10 AUD | ₫ 214,894.32 VND |
| A$ 50 AUD | ₫ 1,074,471.62 VND |
| A$ 100 AUD | ₫ 2,148,943.25 VND |
| A$ 250 AUD | ₫ 5,372,358.12 VND |
| A$ 500 AUD | ₫ 10,744,716.23 VND |
| A$ 1,000 AUD | ₫ 21,489,432.46 VND |
advice given -
Avoid using your credit card. They add 3% commission on top of the rest of the charges. You'll have no problems changing Australian dollars in the gold shops. They give better than bank rate. I do however recommend you bring $100 U.S. in small clean bills until you find your feet.The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has a branch in Saigon. Unlike the ANZ bank this is an actual branch. You can draw 9'000'000 per withdrawal from their auto-teller up to your limit, for $2 Aust per withdrawal.
Also with such high denominations of note, be careful of common scams run by street sellers where you are short changed by a factor of ten (eg as part of your change, you may receive five 200 dong notes as "10,000 VND!").
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