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20 Won Year of the Snake
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a coiled snake rendered in naturalistic style against a lightly colored field, surrounded by decorative floral and foliate elements including blossoming branches, evoking a traditional East Asian artistic aesthetic. The Chinese character 巳 (representing the Snake in the Chinese zodiac) appears prominently in the upper portion of the field. A series of years associated with the Year of the Snake — 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, and 2025 — is inscribed along the lower portion of the design, identifying this as part of a Chinese Lunar Calendar commemorative series. |
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North Korea has issued Chinese zodiac commemoratives sporadically since the early 2000s, primarily targeting the foreign collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency generation, not monetary function. These pieces were never intended to pass through North Korean hands.
KM# 1184 is one of the more obscure entries in the DPRK's collector coinage program, with distribution routed almost entirely through a small network of sanctioned intermediary dealers operating out of Macau and Beijing.