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1 Won Sperm Whale
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Weight | 16 g |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting Mount Paektu above a hydroelectric dam, flanked by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon in the national colours, and surmounted by a five-pointed star radiating sunbeams. The circular legend in Korean Hangul script reads along the upper periphery, giving the full name of the issuing authority. The denomination '1 WON' appears in Latin characters at the base of the design, flanked by stylised laurel sprigs. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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North Korea's foreign-currency collectible program, active from the 1980s onward, was designed entirely to extract hard currency from overseas collectors while remaining functionally invisible to the domestic population. These pieces never circulated inside the DPRK.
KM#755a is the brass variant, issued alongside a silver version for the same subject — a pricing tier strategy common across the program's wildlife issues.