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200 Won 50th Anniversary of Liberation - Turtle Ship
| Issuer | North Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Second Won (1959-2009) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea displayed prominently in the central field, featuring a hydroelectric dam and power pylon set against radiating sunbeams, flanked by sheaves of rice and surmounted by a five-pointed star. The state name in Hangul script arcs along the upper periphery, reading 조선민주주의인민공화국, with the denomination legend 200원 and the specifications 8g and 999 appearing in the field to either side of the arms. Two olive branches extend from the base, and the date 1995 is inscribed below the arms. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued in 1995 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, this is one of several North Korean commemorative gold pieces released in that period almost exclusively for the foreign collector market — hard currency generation, not domestic celebration. The DPRK's commemorative coin program through the 1990s was administered largely through foreign trading companies, and many issues saw nominal or unverifiable mintages.
KM#95.1 designates this as the first of two recorded varieties for the type.