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20 Won World's First Metal types for printing
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Korean (Hangul) |
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| Reverse lettering | 세계최초의 금속활자본-《직지심경》 佛祖直指心體要節 白雲和尚抄錄 正指 1-377 우리민족의 자랑 주체 94(2005) |
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The movable metal type referenced here predates Gutenberg by approximately two centuries. The Goryeo dynasty cast individual bronze type characters no later than the early 13th century, with the Jikji — a Buddhist anthology printed using this method in 1377 — surviving as the oldest extant book produced with movable metal type, held today at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. North Korea's claim to this heritage is politically loaded: the relevant history belongs to a unified Korean past that both Pyongyang and Seoul actively compete to own.