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20 Won Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 24.76 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a detailed high-relief rendering of a traditional Korean multi-tiered gate pavilion, likely Pyongyang's Taedong Gate, set against a colorized deep-blue night sky. The foreground features low-relief flowering branches with applied color highlights in amber and red. The Hangul legend 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행, reading 'Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea', arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 20 원 appears in Hangul at the lower field in raised characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 20원 (Translation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea Central Bank 20 won) |
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North Korea's lunar calendar commemorative series was produced almost entirely for the international collector market — hard currency the regime badly needed, with domestic circulation never the intent. The "Year of the Ox" pieces were struck in 2009 under the same foreign-exchange logic that drove Pyongyang to mint dozens of collector issues through the late 1990s and 2000s, often contracting production to mints in China and Eastern Europe.
KM# 1109 sits in a crowded field of DPRK brass commemoratives from this period, many sharing the same planchet specifications across different nominal denominations.