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10 Won Road and rail links
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a sweeping, stylised composition depicting the groundbreaking for the reconnection of inter-Korean railways and roads. In the foreground, bold diagonal lines represent converging rail tracks and a modern road, curving dynamically across the field. In the middle ground, a high-speed train is shown on the left, while a truck and a bus travel along the road to the right, all set against a lightly engraved landscape background. The year '2002', commemorating the groundbreaking ceremony, appears in the upper portion of the field, with the denomination '10 WON' inscribed to the right. The circular Latin legend 'GROUNDBREAKING FOR RELINKING INTER-KOREAN RAILWAYS AND ROADS' runs along the upper periphery. |
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North Korea's commemorative silver program of the early 2000s was largely produced for export — pieces like this were never intended to circulate domestically and were sold through foreign numismatic dealers and trading companies as hard-currency earners for the regime. The subject matter, infrastructure connectivity, reflects Pyongyang's consistent use of transportation themes in state imagery during a period when the country's actual rail network was in severe deterioration following the economic collapse of the 1990s.