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20 Won Kumdang-2 Injection
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Weight | 17.2 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 2007 ★ 20 WON |
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| Reverse script | Korean / Latin |
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Kumdang-2 is a real North Korean pharmaceutical product — an injectable compound developed in the 1990s under state direction and officially claimed to cure HIV, cancer, and drug addiction simultaneously. The regime's decision to commemorate it on circulating-weight brass coinage in 2007 sits somewhere between propaganda exercise and hard-currency souvenir, almost certainly produced for export sale rather than domestic pocket change. North Korea had by that point developed a minor industry in novelty numismatic issues targeting foreign collectors.
KM# 107 is one of several thematic pieces from this period with no plausible domestic circulation function.