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1 Won Capitalist Visitor
| Issuer | Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea (무역은행) |
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| Year | 1988-2003 |
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| In circulation to | 1992 |
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| Reverse description | Central guilloche medallion encloses the numeral '1' within an ornate cartouche framed by floral rosettes at top and scrolling foliate motifs at the sides, all executed in dark teal intaglio on a pale green wave-pattern underprint. A secondary circular rosette vignette appears at the right, and latent-image numeral '1' is worked into the lower-left corner piece. The Korean denomination inscription and issuer name are set at upper left and lower right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 무역은행 일원 (Translation: Foreign Trade Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, One Won) |
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North Korea maintained parallel currency systems for foreign visitors, with separate note series distinguishing socialist-bloc travelers from those arriving from capitalist countries. This note belongs to the latter category — a distinction that carried real practical weight, as it determined which shops and facilities the holder could access. The "capitalist visitor" series was tied to the hard-currency certificate system introduced to extract foreign exchange without granting outsiders access to the domestic won economy.
The Foreign Trade Bank issued these through designated exchange points at entry, and conversion back to hard currency on departure was deliberately restricted.