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1 Won Blue Dragon
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 5.2 g |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is depicted in high relief at the centre of the field, featuring a hydroelectric power station beneath a five-pointed star radiating rays of light, framed by a wreath of rice ears tied with a ribbon at the base. The Korean legend 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행, reading 'Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea', curves along the upper periphery. A decorative laurel wreath frames the lower portion of the field, with the denomination '1 WON' inscribed in Latin characters at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 1 WON (Translation: Central Bank of Democratic People's Republic of Korea) |
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North Korea's collector coinage from this period was produced almost entirely for foreign exchange, not domestic circulation — the won was inconvertible and ordinary citizens had no access to hard currency shops where such pieces appeared. The Blue Dragon is one of the four celestial symbols of Korean cosmology, each associated with a cardinal direction and a season, a iconographic tradition shared across the Sinosphere for over two millennia.
KM#127a distinguishes this aluminium strike from a companion issue in the same series, suggesting parallel production runs in different metals targeting different segments of the export collector market.