20 Won Baseball

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.