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10 Won Kim Jong Suk
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 31g 999 10 원 |
| Reverse description | A facing bust portrait of Kim Jong Suk (1917–1949), the Korean anti-Japanese resistance fighter and wife of Kim Il-sung, occupies the central field in matte relief against a mirror-polished background. The circular legend '공산주의 혁명투사 김정숙동지' (Comrade Kim Jong Suk, Communist Revolutionary Fighter) arcs along the upper periphery, with the birth year '1917' at the left and death year '1949' at the right. A decorative wreath of magnolia blossoms frames the lower portion of the portrait. The Juche calendar year and Gregorian year '주체90 (2001)' appear in the lower exergue, commemorating the 90th anniversary of her birth. |
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Kim Jong Suk — guerrilla fighter, first wife of Kim Il-sung, and mother of Kim Jong-il — died in 1949 and was elevated posthumously into the official DPRK pantheon as a revolutionary martyr. This issue almost certainly belongs to the hard-currency proof series North Korea produced throughout the 1990s and 2000s for foreign collectors, generating badly needed foreign exchange rather than serving any domestic monetary function. These coins were never intended to circulate inside the DPRK itself.
KM#386 sits in a crowded field of similar commemoratives from Pyongyang's export numismatic program, most distributed through European intermediaries.