North Korea's commemorative coinage program has long targeted foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation — hard currency earned through numismatic exports is one of the regime's more obscure revenue streams. This piece, like most DPRK commemoratives of the period, was almost certainly never intended to pass through North Korean hands.
North Korea's commemorative coinage program has long targeted foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation — hard currency earned through numismatic exports is one of the regime's more obscure revenue streams. This piece, like most DPRK commemoratives of the period, was almost certainly never intended to pass through North Korean hands.