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20 Won Baseball
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse script | Korean/Latin |
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| Reverse description | At center, a baseball batter in full swing is depicted, accompanied by the Chinese character inscription '棒球' (baseball) referencing the sport. The English legend 'SUMMER GAMES 2008' arcs along the upper periphery. In the lower field, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing is shown against the backdrop of the Daesong Fortress wall, which bears a baseball emblem and the year '2007'. A Korean inscription '대성산성' appears above this lower vignette, commemorating the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. |
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North Korea has issued commemorative coinage sporadically since the 1970s, primarily for foreign currency collectors rather than domestic circulation — hard currency being far more valuable to the state than any numismatic premium. This brass 20 Won piece falls squarely into that export-oriented collector market, produced under the auspices of the Central Bank but almost certainly never intended to pass through the hands of ordinary North Korean citizens.
Baseball has a surprisingly deep history on the peninsula, introduced during the Japanese colonial period and remaining genuinely popular in the North well after partition.