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50 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Thickness | 1.9 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 오십원 주체94 (2005) (Translation: Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 50 Won Juche 94 (2005)) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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North Korea's aluminum coinage from the mid-2000s was produced largely for domestic circulation during a period when the country's formal currency system had become largely disconnected from actual economic activity — most transactions ran through informal markets that operated outside state pricing entirely. The 2002 "July 1st Economic Management Improvement Measures" had formally acknowledged wage and price realities that the won's official denominations couldn't accommodate, making small-denomination coins like this increasingly symbolic in daily use.
KM#426 is one of several aluminum issues from this period whose actual circulation volumes remain unverifiable from outside the country.