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1 Won Arirang Dancer with Cranes
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse description | A bust-length portrait of a female Arirang dancer rendered in low relief occupies the right field, depicted in traditional Korean dress with flowing robes and her gaze directed upward to the left. Three cranes in flight are shown above her in the upper field, their wings extended gracefully. To the left, smaller figures of performers are shown in dynamic poses beside a circular emblem with a Hangul inscription. The curved Latin legend 'MASS GYMNASTIC AND ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE' arcs along the upper rim, while the bilingual inscription 'ARIRANG / 아리랑' appears in the lower central field, with the date 'Juche 91 (2002)' in the exergue. |
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North Korea's foreign-currency commemorative program, active from the late 1980s onward, was designed explicitly to extract hard currency from overseas collectors while remaining largely invisible to the domestic population. These brass issues circulated nowhere inside the DPRK.
KM#308 is one of dozens of thematically similar pieces produced around 2001–2003, many sharing dies or planchets across multiple catalog numbers — a known inconsistency that makes clean attribution dependent on the Schön reference rather than KM alone.