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1 Won Skaters
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Obverse description | The State coat of arms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting a hydroelectric power station before Mount Paektu with a radiant red star above, the whole device framed by sheaves of rice bound at the base with a ribbon inscribed with the state name in Hangul. The circular legend naming the Central Bank of Korea in Hangul runs along the upper periphery. The denomination '1 WON' appears in Latin characters within a decorative spray of leaves at the lower rim. |
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| Obverse script | Hangul/Latin |
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North Korea's commemorative output in the late 1990s and early 2000s was produced almost entirely for the foreign collector market, not domestic circulation — hard currency earned through coin sales to overseas dealers was a meaningful revenue stream for the regime during the post-Soviet economic collapse that killed an estimated 600,000 to one million North Koreans in the preceding famine years. Pyongyang's mint issued dozens of sporting themes across this period, figure skating among them.
Brass examples of this type are the more commonly encountered variant; a silver version also exists in the series.