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20 Won Hoopoe
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1128 |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 20 원 주체96 (2007) |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed hoopoe (Upupa epops) is depicted in profile, perched upon a bare, gnarled branch set against a lightly textured field with rocky ground below. The bird's distinctive fan-shaped crest is fully raised and rendered with careful attention to feather detail, and its long curved bill is clearly defined. The Latin-script inscription 'A Hoopoe' appears along the lower left of the field, identifying the species. |
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North Korea has issued commemorative coinage for foreign currency markets since the 1970s, producing pieces with no practical domestic circulation — the won was effectively non-convertible and the internal economy ran on a rationing system. This hoopoe issue follows that pattern: made to generate hard currency through numismatic export, not for use inside the country.