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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 |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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North Korea's foreign exchange coinage of the early 2000s was produced almost entirely for export — these brass issues circulated among collectors and curiosity buyers outside the DPRK rather than within it. Domestic transactions by that point operated through a parallel system largely divorced from coined money, a consequence of the economic collapse following Soviet aid cutoffs in 1991.
KM#238 belongs to a wave of collector-targeted issues released through state trading companies, the hard currency proceeds going directly to Pyongyang.