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100 Won World Championship of Football France 1998
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF FOOTBALL · FRANCE 1998 100 WON |
| Edge | Smooth |
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North Korea's participation in the 1998 World Cup commemorative market was purely commercial — these coins were struck for export sale through Pobjoy Mint and similar intermediaries, never intended to circulate domestically. The DPRK issued dozens of such pieces through the 1990s, licensing foreign sporting events it had no political connection to, as hard currency generation through numismatic exports was one of the few reliable revenue streams available to the regime.