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5 Chon Socialist visitor
| Issuer | North Korea |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Thickness | 1.47 mm |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 1974 (Translation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea) |
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North Korea produced distinct coin sets in the early 1970s for foreign visitors, separated deliberately from domestic circulation coinage. The "socialist visitor" designation — as opposed to the parallel "capitalist visitor" issues — determined which currency foreigners from allied Soviet-bloc nations received when exchanging money upon entry. The two streams were not interchangeable domestically, functioning as a crude but effective mechanism for tracking and controlling foreign exchange within the country.
KM#10 belongs to that segregated tourist currency infrastructure, which remained in use until the won reform of the late 1970s rendered the distinctions increasingly unworkable.