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5 Won Balaena Mysticetus
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 5 Won 5 KPW = USD 0.0056 |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 999 15g 5 WON |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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North Korea issued a series of wildlife-themed silver pieces in the late 1990s and early 2000s primarily for foreign export, generating hard currency at a time when the country was still reeling from the catastrophic famine of 1994–1998 that killed an estimated 240,000 to 3.5 million people. These coins never circulated domestically. The bowhead whale — Balaena mysticetus — is among the longest-lived mammals on Earth, with confirmed individuals exceeding 200 years of age, a biological fact that makes the species a subject of ongoing scientific interest in Arctic research.