Catalog
100 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of Korea (Chosun Chungang Unhaeng) |
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| Year | 1959 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 조선중앙은행 일백원 1959 (Translation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Central Bank of Korea, One Hundred Won, 1959) |
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| Reverse lettering | 조선중앙은행 100 일백원 100 (Translation: Central Bank of Korea, 100, One Hundred Won, 100) |
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The metadata here contains a genuine puzzle: the note carries a 1959 issue date yet the printing date recorded is 30 April 1945 — before the liberation of Korea, before partition, and before either the Bank of Korea or its predecessor had authority over a southern Korean currency. That discrepancy almost certainly reflects a catalog data error, possibly conflating printing records from an earlier colonial-era issue with a later note in the same Pick series. P#17 is attributed to the South Korean Central Bank of Korea under its transitional Korean-language designation, Chosun Chungang Unhaeng, which itself signals the brief institutional overlap between the post-liberation period and the formal establishment of the Bank of Korea in 1950.
The 225 × 95 mm format is notably large relative to later Korean issues of the same denomination.