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20 Won Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 20 Won (20 KPW) |
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| Obverse description | Central design features the Taedong Gate (Taedongmun), a historic East Gate of Pyongyang, rendered in fine relief with multi-tiered pavilion architecture set upon a stone base. The circular legend in Hangul script reading the full name of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea runs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '20 원' appears prominently in the lower field beneath the gate. |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 20원 (Translation: Central Bank of the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea, 20 Won) |
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North Korea has issued commemorative coinage for foreign hard currency since the 1970s, a program designed entirely to generate export income rather than circulate domestically. This brass zodiac piece is part of that series, produced for the collector export market at a time when the DPRK's hard currency operations were under increasing international sanctions pressure following the country's first nuclear test in 2006.