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1000 Won XXI Winter Olympic Games - Nordic combined
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a detailed engraving of the Taedong Gate (Taedongmun), a historic two-tiered pavilion gate in Pyongyang, rendered in fine relief with traditional Korean architectural detailing including sweeping tiled roofs, stone foundations, and surrounding foliage. The Hangul legend encircles the upper periphery reading the full name of the issuing authority. The denomination '1000 WON' appears in the lower exergue in Latin script, flanked by the silver fineness and weight indicators '20 g' and 'Ag 999' on either side of the inner field. |
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| Obverse script | Hangul, Latin |
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North Korea has issued Olympic-themed commemoratives since the 1980s, largely targeting the foreign collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency generation, not numismatic pride. The DPRK fielded no athletes in the Nordic combined event at the 2010 Vancouver Games, nor at Turin 2006, making the subject choice purely commercial.