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20 Won Year of the Dog
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central motif depicts the Taedong Gate (Taedongmun), a historic East Gate in Pyongyang, rendered in fine detail with its characteristic multi-tiered pagoda roof and stone foundation gateway, set against a mirror field. The Korean inscription arcs along the upper periphery, reading the full name of the issuing institution. The denomination '20 원' appears in the lower portion of the field beneath the gate structure. |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed depiction of a standing dog, rendered in profile facing left with its head raised alertly, set amid stylized foliage in the left field. In the upper right quadrant, a square seal cartouche encloses the Chinese seal-script character '戌' (Dog), the eleventh earthly branch of the Chinese zodiac cycle. The date '2013' is inscribed along the lower exergual area. |
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North Korea's commemorative coinage program has functioned primarily as a hard-currency revenue stream rather than a domestic circulation initiative — these pieces were produced for foreign collectors and never entered the DPRK's internal economy. The regime has used numismatic exports since the 1970s as a modest but consistent source of foreign exchange, routed through intermediary dealers in Europe and Asia.
The 2013 lunar series issues were distributed through Münze & Medaille and similar European trading partners.