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1 Won Tiger
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 1 Won 1 KPW = RSD 0.11 |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistically rendered Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is depicted in profile, seated and facing left in the centre of the field, accompanied by a smaller cub standing to its left foreground. The animals are set within a sparse woodland landscape, with stylised conifer trees occupying the left and right portions of the field. The legend TIGER curves along the upper border in bold Latin capitals, while WILDLIFE is inscribed in two words along the lower periphery, both in matching relief style. |
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North Korea's collector coinage program, active since the 1970s, was largely a hard-currency generation scheme targeting foreign buyers rather than domestic circulation — aluminium pieces like this one never meaningfully entered the DPRK's internal economy. The program accelerated through the 1990s and early 2000s as the state sought any avenue for foreign exchange during the famine years following the collapse of Soviet subsidies.