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1 Chon Capitalist visitor
| Issuer | North Korea |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | ⋆1⋆ 전 (Translation: 1 Chon) |
| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea issued a small series of aluminum coins in 1959 for use by foreign visitors — a parallel currency system designed to keep hard currency and capitalist-market transactions segregated from the domestic won economy. The "capitalist visitor" designation distinguished these pieces from a companion series intended for socialist-bloc tourists, the two populations being tracked and monetarily separated by the state.
KM#5 is among the more elusive pieces from this set, reflecting genuinely low production rather than attrition through circulation.