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1 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 1 Won (1 KPW) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a student, a woman, and children set against modern North Korean buildings, collectively evoking the ideological theme of a bright national future. The date 1978 appears alongside the bank title and the patriotic slogan in Korean script. Numeral and textual denomination are rendered at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 1 일원 (Translation: Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, One Won) |
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North Korea's 1978 note series introduced a two-tier currency system that would define the country's monetary policy for decades — separate notes were printed for domestic use and for foreign visitors, with the latter carrying special symbols to restrict where they could be spent. The P#18A belongs to the domestic series, circulating among ordinary citizens rather than the hard-currency shops reserved for foreigners and regime-connected elites.
The series was printed in Leipzig by the East German state printing house, a common arrangement among socialist bloc countries during this period.