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10 Chon Socialist Visitor
| Issuer | Foreign Trade Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Size | 100 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink note on a wavy-line guilloche underprint with a large central rosette guilloche vignette bearing the numeral '10' in dark intaglio-style figures. The National Coat of Arms is positioned in the upper right, with the issuer name in Korean script below and the date '1988' beneath; the inscription '외화와바꾼돈표' runs along the top edge flanked by guilloche ornaments. A horizontal band of dense interlaced guilloche work occupies the lower portion, with the denomination '십전' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 십전 십전 (Translation: Ten Chon) |
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North Korea has maintained a multi-currency system since the 1970s, issuing separate notes for foreign visitors, diplomats, and socialist-bloc tourists — each color-coded to restrict purchasing access across different categories of shops. This 10 Chon falls within the socialist visitor series, distinguishable from the capitalist visitor and domestic citizen equivalents by its color treatment. The practical effect was a hard-currency extraction mechanism dressed up as tourist convenience.
Pick 33 is among the lower-denomination pieces in the Foreign Trade Bank's 1988 visitor issue, which replaced an earlier series from the late 1970s.