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20 Won Year of the Rabbit
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 1085 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vivid full-color applied illustration of three white rabbits — one large adult and two smaller juveniles — resting amidst a naturalistic landscape with flowering plants in red and green to the left and foliage to the right. A black rectangular cartouche bearing the Chinese character '兔' (rabbit) is positioned in the upper right of the field. Along the lower rim, a series of years corresponding to past and future Years of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac cycle is inscribed in Latin numerals: 1963-1975-1987-1999-2011-2023. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea has issued commemorative coinage for foreign hard currency since the 1970s, a program designed explicitly to extract convertible currency from collectors abroad while domestic circulation remained a separate, tightly controlled system. These pieces never entered North Korean pockets. The Year of the Rabbit places this within a broader lunar calendar series that Pyongyang minted aggressively in the late 2000s and early 2010s, targeting the Chinese collector market specifically — a calculated appeal to a neighboring population with both disposable income and deep cultural investment in zodiac commemoration.