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1 Won
| Issuer | Soviet Red Army Command (Korea) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 붉은군대 사령부 壹원 1945년 금전출납의 환용은 정법임 (Translation: Red Army Command, One Won, Year 1945, The exchange of money is a legal act) |
| Reverse description | Green note printed in a single color, with a large central oval guilloche frame enclosing the denomination characters 壹원 flanked by two hexagonal rosette vignettes, each containing the numeral 1, set within an elaborate scrollwork border. The numeral 1 appears in all four corners of the note. A rectangular panel at the lower center carries the anti-counterfeiting warning inscription in Korean. |
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These notes were printed in the Soviet Union before the Red Army crossed into Korea in August 1945, part of a suite of military occupation currency (1 Won through 100 Won) introduced to give Soviet troops a means of acquiring goods without drawing directly on Korean Bank notes. The issuing authority was the Red Army command itself, not any Korean financial institution — a deliberate arrangement that kept Soviet military expenditure formally separate from the existing colonial currency infrastructure left by Japan.
The print date of 30 April 1945 places production squarely in the final days of the European war, months before Korea was even a theatre of operations.