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5 Chon Arirang Festival
| Issuer | Foreign Trade Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2002-2003 |
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| Value | 5 Chon (0.05 KPW) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned note with a guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The National Coat of Arms of the DPRK appears as a circular vignette at the left, with the large numeral and Korean character denomination '5전' at centre. The issuing authority inscription runs along the lower margin, with the date 1988 at lower right and a serial number at lower left; a yellow-orange panel at upper right carries a repeated denomination indicator. |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly pink reverse with an intricate multicolour guilloche rosette at centre, enclosing the denomination '5전' in large Korean script. Repeating microprint numerals '58' form a decorative border band across the upper portion of the note, while a floral ornament and the Arabic numeral '5' appear at lower right. |
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The Foreign Trade Bank of the DPRK produced several denominations specifically for foreign visitors attending the Arirang Mass Games, a state-choreographed performance event that drew a limited stream of tourists in the early 2000s. These notes were not convertible through ordinary channels and circulated only within a tightly controlled hard-currency economy parallel to the domestic won system.
P#24A.3 is distinguished from closely related varieties by serial number prefix or color nuances — differences meaningful to specialists but easy to overlook without direct comparison against P#24A.1 and P#24A.2.