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10 Won Fauna of Asia
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting the Paektu hydroelectric power station and a pylon before a mountain landscape, surmounted by a five-pointed star emitting rays, and flanked by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon bearing the Hangul inscription of the country's name. The legend in Hangul reading the full name of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea curves along the upper periphery, with the denomination in Hangul (10 원) at the right. Two laurel branches frame the lower field, and the date 1996 appears in the exergue below the emblem. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea's hard currency commemorative program of the 1990s was never intended for domestic circulation — these pieces were produced explicitly for foreign exchange, sold through state-controlled numismatic export channels to collectors in Europe and Japan. The program generated badly needed hard currency during the depths of the Arduous March famine, when the country lost an estimated 3–5% of its population to starvation.
KM#515 is one of several issues in the Fauna of Asia series struck to the same 28.28g copper-nickel specification used widely by the Royal Mint for Commonwealth commemoratives — a deliberate choice to meet collector expectations for the format.