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10 Won Seongkyunkwan
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Weight | 30.8 g |
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| Reverse script | Korean (Hangul) |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding (6x2 segments) |
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Issued by the DPRK's Central Bank in 2010, this piece was part of a broader run of commemorative brass coins targeting the international collector market — a hard-currency revenue stream North Korea developed methodically from the 1980s onward. Seongkyunkwan, the Joseon-era Confucian academy in what is now Seoul, sits on the southern side of the DMZ, making its appearance on a North Korean coin a pointed claim to shared Korean cultural heritage. Pyongyang has consistently framed such pre-partition institutions as belonging to all Koreans.