Catalog
50 Chon Peoples Republic, Specimen
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1978 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the celebrated Chollima Statue, the iconic winged horse monument atop Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, depicted against a radiant rising sun whose rays extend across the field in a dynamic sunburst pattern. The composition conveys the spirit of the Chollima Movement, symbolizing rapid socialist construction. The Hangul word for 'Specimen' (견본) appears in the upper portion of the field, and the four-digit date '1978' is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea's specimen coinage from this period was produced almost exclusively for international distribution through Numismatic Guarantee channels and foreign currency shops — not for domestic circulation, where the won-based economy operated under strict state allocation rather than market exchange. The 1978 aluminium issues were among the first specimens the DPRK systematically exported, likely as part of hard currency generation during a period of acute foreign debt following the country's 1975 default on Western creditors.