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100 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of North Korea |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette with an engraved landscape view of Mount Paektu (Baekdu Mountain), its snow-capped volcanic peak rising above rolling foothills and sparse trees, rendered in red intaglio. Elaborate acanthus-scroll and guilloche surrounds flank the vignette, with denomination counters reading 백원 and 百圓 at left and right respectively, and the date 1947 set in an ornamental cartouche at the bottom centre. The inscription 선조주민 appears in a curved banner across the top of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 선조주민 백 원 百 圓 1947 (Translation: Democratic Chosun, 100 Won, 1947) |
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| Variants | P#11a - with watermark P#11b - without watermark (modern reprint) |
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