1 Won Pitta brachyura

North Korea's foreign-currency collectible program, active from the 1970s onward, was designed explicitly to extract hard currency from overseas collectors while keeping the domestic population entirely insulated from the pieces. This coin never circulated inside the DPRK. The Pitta brachyura — the Indian pitta — appears as part of a broader wildlife series targeting the international numismatic market, a revenue stream the regime treated as seriously as any export commodity.