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10 Won Kim Il Sung birthplace
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark the 80th birthday of Kim Il Sung, this coin was part of a broader commemorative program released as the DPRK was entering one of its most acute periods of economic contraction — Soviet subsidies had effectively ended with the USSR's collapse, and the country was moving toward the famine years of the mid-1990s. Hard currency was scarce, and commemorative issues like this one were produced largely for export sale to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation.
The birthplace in question is Mangyongdae, a village on the outskirts of Pyongyang now maintained as a national shrine.