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30 Won Friendship Art Festival
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1989 |
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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 are depicted centrally within a polished field, showing a hydroelectric power station set against a mountain landscape beneath radiating sunbeams and a five-pointed star. The arms are flanked at the lower portion by crossed sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon. A wreath of laurel branches frames the lower half of the field. The circular Korean-script legend 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 runs along the upper periphery, with the date 1989 inscribed at the base. |
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| Mintage | 1989 - Proof |
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The Friendship Art Festival was a recurring Pyongyang event that brought foreign performance troupes to the DPRK, used explicitly to project an image of international solidarity during a period when North Korea was losing ground in its rivalry with the South. The 1989 issue coincided with the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, hosted in Pyongyang that summer — the largest and most expensive event the country had ever staged, reportedly costing billions of won and involving over 22,000 participants from 177 countries.
KM#26 was struck for the collector export market, not domestic circulation.