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1 Won Year of the Horse
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The State Coat of Arms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting Mount Paektu with a radiant star above, flanked by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon, and a hydroelectric dam in the foreground. The Hangul legend naming the issuing state arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '1 WON' is inscribed in the lower field, flanked by decorative scrollwork elements. |
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| Obverse script | Hangul/Latin |
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North Korea's zodiac coinage program, launched in the late 1990s, was aimed squarely at the foreign collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was the objective, not numismatic tradition. The brass composition and relatively generous diameter place this firmly in that export-driven series, produced with collector sets in mind from the outset.
2002 was the Year of the Horse under the sexagenary cycle, corresponding also to Juche 91 in the DPRK's state calendar, which counts from Kim Il-sung's 1912 birth year.