Helped with information on Vietnam token/coin

Hello, I recently purchased this piece. I have no idea what it is have consulted google without a lot of luck.






The vendor listed the description as follows:


NLF Issue Coin. Vietnam War
"This shiny coin to be used in exchange of paper and money in this area. You are Responsible Before the Law to Accept them. For the Internal Circulation of the Liberated Area of Ma Da Forest and Dong Nai Forest"
Aluminium Coin, issued by the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) - The Only Coin I have ever come across issued by the National Liberation Front (NLF). This piece was issued in the Dong Nai Forest and the Ma Da Forest (inside Dong Nai Forest). The Ma Da Forest contained numerous Rubber Plantations.


Any help would be welcome.

After some clicking around, all I was able to do was possibly corroborate what you have already said. I was able to find a photo another collector posted on the internet, but that's all. I hope knowing that you have the right information helps in your search for positive id. I couldn't find it in the Numista catalog, but that doesn't mean anything. Hope this helps.

Citeer: "Raibas"​After some clicking around, all I was able to do was possibly corroborate what you have already said. I was able to find a photo another collector posted on the internet, but that's all. I hope knowing that you have the right information helps in your search for positive id. I couldn't find it in the Numista catalog, but that doesn't mean anything. Hope this helps.
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​Do you have a link to where the collector posted that picture?

Citeer: "mickfinn"​

Citeer: "Raibas"​After some clicking around, all I was able to do was possibly corroborate what you have already said. I was able to find a photo another collector posted on the internet, but that's all. I hope knowing that you have the right information helps in your search for positive id. I couldn't find it in the Numista catalog, but that doesn't mean anything. Hope this helps.
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​​Do you have a link to where the collector posted that picture?

I wanted to post a link, but it was just a google image with a dead link.

There is a thing called "Trường Sơn money". During the Vietnam War, to pay for the soldiers in South Vietnam without crossing the Bến Hải River, the soldiers walking on the Trường Sơn path will be paid Trường Sơn money so that the South Vietnam goverment doesn't execute them for being in the Vietcong. After the war, most of the Trường Sơn money was thrown away, so it becomes rare. This coin is a 50 xu coin to be used at the second to last checkpoint.
P/S: I didn't know these existed, even though I'm a Vietnamese!
P/S/S: Shall I add the coin for you?
P/S/S/S: I actually doubt this. I only know that banknotes existed, but coins?

That's an amazing piece of history. So many things in history become lost or forgotten as time goes by. That's one of the things that drew me to numismatics originally. Something that seems to be nothing more than an insignificant coin can open the door to a part of history you had no idea even existed.