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10 Won Kim Jong Il and Putin
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#279 |
| Obverse description | Central device features the State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: a stylised landscape depicting Mount Paektu, a hydroelectric dam, and agricultural fields, surmounted by a five-pointed star radiating rays of light, the whole flanked by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon and supported by two hands holding a scroll inscribed with the state name in Korean. The circular legend reads 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 (Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) around the upper periphery. The denomination 10 원 appears prominently in the lower field, with the weight and fineness indicators 31g and 999 flanking the emblem at mid-field. |
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| Obverse script | Korean |
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Issued to commemorate Vladimir Putin's July 2000 state visit to Pyongyang — the first by a Russian head of state since the Soviet era — this piece was produced in the immediate aftermath of the inter-Korean summit and amid North Korea's intensive diplomatic rehabilitation campaign following the Arduous March famine years. Putin's visit resulted in a joint declaration explicitly opposing U.S. missile defense systems, a political alignment the DPRK had every reason to memorialize in silver.
Mintage figures were never officially published, as is standard for DPRK commemorative issues, but these pieces circulated almost exclusively through Western numismatic channels via intermediaries in China and Germany.