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1 Won Rainbow Lorikeet
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#505, Schön#95 |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse description | A Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) is depicted in fine relief, perched in three-quarter profile upon a textured branch that extends across the lower field. The bird's plumage is rendered with detailed engraved feathering across the breast, wings, and tail. A vertical row of ten raised dots ornaments the left field. The legend FAUNA OF ASIA arcs along the right periphery in upright Latin characters. |
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North Korea issued a series of brass wildlife coins around the turn of the millennium aimed squarely at the international collector market — hard currency the state badly needed following the economic collapse of the 1990s. The Rainbow Lorikeet is native to Australia and the southwestern Pacific, nowhere near the Korean peninsula, which makes its appearance on a DPRK coin entirely a function of export sales rather than any national significance.