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20 Won Seated Buddha Statue
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central motif depicting the Taedong Gate (동대문), a historic multi-tiered Korean pavilion gate rendered in fine relief with elaborate bracketed eaves and stone foundation, set against a plain polished field with vegetation in the lower foreground. The circular legend in Hangul script reading 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 arcs along the upper periphery, while the Latin denomination '20 WON' appears in raised letters along the lower rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 20 WON (Translation: Central Bank of the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea) |
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North Korea has issued collector coinage sporadically since the 1970s, largely targeting foreign hard-currency buyers rather than domestic circulation — brass pieces of this type never meaningfully entered the DPRK's internal economy, where the won itself functions under a dual-currency system that has repeatedly been reset by government decree, most recently and disruptively in the 2009 redenomination that wiped out household savings and triggered rare public protests.