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5 Won Kim Il Sung's Birthplace
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Value | 5 Won |
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| Obverse description | The National Coat of Arms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is depicted in the central field, featuring a hydroelectric power station and mountain landscape surmounted by a five-pointed star radiating sunbeams, flanked by sheaves of grain bound with a ribbon. The circular legend in Hangul script reads the full name of the issuing state and bank, running along the upper periphery. The denomination '오5원' (5 Won) appears in the lower central field flanked by decorative foliate sprigs, with the date '1987' inscribed below in the exergue. The design is executed with a deeply contrasted proof-style finish against a mirror field. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Issued the year before Kim Il Sung's 76th birthday, this coin was produced almost certainly for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation — North Korea's hard currency procurement strategy throughout the 1980s relied heavily on selling commemorative coins abroad while the domestic population rarely handled anything beyond basic aluminum coinage. The Mangyongdae birthplace site depicted had already been extensively reconstructed by the state, its original structures replaced with a curated revolutionary shrine.