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100 Won 17th Issue
| Issuer | Government of the Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1963 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 大韓民國政府 壹百원 五分利建國國債證書 第拾七回 財務部長官 西紀一九六三年度發行 (Translation: Government of the Republic of Korea 100 Won 5% National Reconstruction Bond Certificate Issue No. 17 Minister of Finance Issued in 1963) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground in blue-green letterpress, carrying two tabular schedules within a decorative guilloche border. The upper table sets out the five annual principal repayment tranches from 1966 to 1970, each at two-tenths of the issued amount. The lower table lists the corresponding cumulative interest payments due on each repayment date. |
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The 17th Issue 100 Won appeared during a particularly unstable stretch of South Korean monetary history — the military government under Park Chung-hee had seized power in 1961 and pushed through a currency reform that same year, redenominating the Hwan at 10:1 to create the new Won. This note, issued two years into that reform, reflects the government's effort to establish the credibility of a currency that had no peacetime track record and was still regarded with deep public skepticism.
Production by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation marked a deliberate move toward domestic printing self-sufficiency, breaking from earlier dependence on foreign security printers.