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1500 Won Beijing Summer Olympics
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Obverse description | Central view of the Taedong Gate (Taedongmun), the historic eastern gate of Pyongyang, rendered in fine detail with its characteristic multi-tiered pavilion roofline set upon a massive stone base, flanked by decorative trees in the lower field. The Korean legend 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 (Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) curves along the upper border. The denomination '1500 WON' appears in the lower exergue, flanked by the fineness indicators '1 oz' at the lower left and 'Ag 999' at the lower right. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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North Korea has issued Olympic commemoratives with some regularity since the 1980s, despite the country's fraught and interrupted participation in the Games themselves — DPRK athletes did compete in Beijing in 2008, ending a boycott absence that had lasted since Seoul 1988. This piece was produced almost certainly for export sale rather than domestic circulation, feeding a hard-currency collector market through state-operated foreign trade channels.