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2 Won World Cup
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2000 |
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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 power station and mountain landscape surmounted by a five-pointed star radiating rays, the whole encircled by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon. The circular Korean legend 조선민주주의인민공화국 중앙은행 (Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) runs along the upper periphery. The denomination 2WON appears in the lower field, flanked on either side by a small laurel spray. The fineness mark 999 is inscribed to the lower right of the emblem, and the weight 7g appears to the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a dynamic relief depiction of a footballer in mid-kick, his right leg extended toward a football in the lower central field, set against the Brandenburg Gate rendered in the left background. The curved legend WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF FOOTBALL arcs along the upper and right periphery. In the lower left field, the inscription WM 2006 / GERMANY appears in two lines, with the issue year 2000 inscribed in the lower right field. |
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North Korea's commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was aimed almost entirely at foreign collectors — hard currency generation for the regime, not domestic circulation. These pieces never entered North Korean hands in any meaningful sense. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan, made for a politically loaded subject: Pyongyang's own football federation was excluded from qualification, and the tournament's co-host was technically still an enemy state under the armistice.