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1 Won Nobel Prize in Medicine, Aluminium
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#209a |
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| Reverse description | Two half-length male figures face each other across a central laboratory flask set upon a burner, commemorating the centenary of the first Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Emil Adolf von Behring. Small laurel sprigs flank the central apparatus in the lower field. The curved legend 'FIRST NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE' arches across the upper rim, with the dates '1901–2001' beneath it. The name 'EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING' curves along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | FIRST NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE 1901-2001 EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING |
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North Korea issued a series of aluminum commemoratives around 2001 targeting the foreign collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency generation, not numismatic tradition, was the explicit motive. The Nobel Prize in Medicine series sits within that output, produced in negligible quantities and rarely encountered in anything but mint state simply because no North Korean citizen ever handled one.
KM#209a designates the aluminum variant, struck alongside a companion issue in a different metal, a common practice in DPRK commemorative production of this period.