Catalog
10 Won Capitalist Visitor
| Issuer | Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea (조선무역은행) |
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| Year | 1988-1995 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 무역은행 외화와바꾼돈표 십원 1988 (Translation: Foreign Trade Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Foreign Currency Exchange Certificate, Ten Won, 1988) |
| Reverse description | Dark green and pink on pale yellow-green underprint. A large central guilloche medallion bears the numeral "10" flanked by floral and foliate ornaments with pink accents, framed by an elaborate geometric border. A circular rosette vignette in teal appears at right, with the numeral "10" at lower left and the Korean denomination 십원 at lower right. |
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North Korea maintained a segregated currency system for foreign visitors throughout the late Cold War period, issuing separate won certificates to control hard currency inflows and prevent contact between foreign money and the domestic population. "Capitalist visitor" notes formed one branch of this scheme — distinct from the certificates issued to socialist-bloc tourists and technical workers, who received their own parallel series at different exchange rates.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a registration artifact or data error; the Foreign Trade Bank series was not established until decades later.