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20 Won Cercopithecus mitis
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Reverse lettering | CERCOPITHECUS MITIS 싸이크스원숭이 2004 |
| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea's foreign-currency commemorative program, active from the 1970s onward, was designed almost entirely for export — these coins were sold through agencies like Münzhandlung Dresden to collectors abroad, never intended for domestic circulation. Hard currency from foreign numismatists was the point. The Cercopithecus mitis, a Central African monkey with no particular connection to the DPRK, appears here as part of a broader wildlife series that drew subjects from across the globe precisely because international buyers expected exotic fauna.
KM#943 is brass where related issues in the same series were struck in silver or cupro-nickel, making composition a meaningful variable when cataloging this run.