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30 Won Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Korean |
| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 중앙은행 30 WON |
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North Korea has issued commemorative bimetallic pieces for the Chinese zodiac calendar with some regularity since the early 2000s, targeting the collector export market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency, not people's currency. The 2011 Rooster issue falls in this category entirely. These pieces were never intended to pass through North Korean hands.
KM#1304 is one of several dozen low-mintage zodiac types produced under the Central Bank's foreign exchange program, a scheme dating to the 1980s whereby Pyongyang generated convertible currency through numismatic exports while the domestic won remained inconvertible and tightly controlled.