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20 Won Pallas's Sandgrouse
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a finely detailed relief of a Pallas's Sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) standing in profile, facing right, with naturalistic feather texturing and elongated tail feathers extending upward to the left. The bird is depicted amid sparse ground vegetation rendered in low relief. The series title legend BIRDS OF KOREA arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, while the binomial scientific name SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS curves along the lower portion of the field, completing the encircling inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea's foreign-currency commemorative program, active from the 1980s onward, was designed almost entirely for export — these coins were never intended to circulate domestically and were sold abroad through state trading companies to generate hard currency for the regime. The Pallas's Sandgrouse (*Syrrhaptes paradoxus*) is a genuine resident of the Central Asian steppe that undertakes irregular irruptive migrations westward, occasionally reaching the Korean peninsula.