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2 Won Fauna of Asia
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting a hydroelectric dam and power pylon beneath Mount Paektu, framed by sheaves of rice tied with a red ribbon and surmounted by a five-pointed star emitting rays. The Hangul legend of the issuing authority, 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행, runs along the upper periphery. The weight '7g' and fineness '999' appear in the lower field to either side of the emblem, with the denomination '2 WON' inscribed at the bottom, flanked by small laurel sprays. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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North Korea's foreign-currency commemorative program, active since the 1970s, was never intended for domestic circulation — these pieces were struck expressly for sale to overseas collectors and generated hard currency for a state perpetually short of it. By 2002, the program had expanded into dozens of annual wildlife-themed issues, many sharing dies or planchets with coins nominally attributed to different years.
KM#892 is one of several fauna-themed pieces from this period where collector demand has consistently outpaced whatever documentation the DPCB made available to catalog compilers.