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400 Won 50th Anniversary of Liberation - Lake on Mount Baektu
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in August 1945, this piece appeared during one of the most acute crises in North Korean history — the mid-1990s famine that killed an estimated several hundred thousand to over a million people while the state simultaneously produced gold commemoratives for the international collector market. Hard currency from foreign coin sales was a meaningful revenue stream for Pyongyang throughout this period.
Mount Baektu holds particular ideological weight in the DPRK's founding mythology, promoted as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il.