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50 Won International Friendship Exhibition
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupies the central field, depicting a hydroelectric power station and a mountain landscape within a wreath of rice ears, surmounted by a five-pointed star radiating rays of light. The Hangul legend naming the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea runs along the upper periphery, while the date '1995' appears in the lower field flanked by small decorative olive sprigs. |
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| Reverse script | Hangul |
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The International Friendship Exhibition is a sprawling complex built into Mount Myohyang, north of Pyongyang, housing gifts presented to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il by foreign dignitaries and heads of state. By the mid-1990s it contained well over 100,000 items. This coin was struck in 1995, the same year Kim Il-sung's death triggered a mandatory three-year mourning period that effectively froze North Korean public life — and during which the famine known as the Arduous March was beginning to kill an estimated hundreds of thousands of people.
North Korean commemoratives of this period were minted almost exclusively for hard-currency export, not domestic circulation.