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50 Won Wanggon
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 50 Won (50 KPW) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea centrally positioned in the field, depicting a hydroelectric power station beneath a radiant five-pointed star, framed by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon. The emblem is encircled by the Hangul legend reading the full name of the Central Bank of Korea, arranged along the upper periphery. The lower portion of the coin bears the inscriptions 'GOLD', '50 WON', and '1/25 oz' in Latin characters, denoting the denomination and gold content. |
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| Obverse script | Hangul, Latin |
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Wanggon — posthumously titled Taejo — founded the Goryeo dynasty in 918 after unifying the Later Three Kingdoms, giving the peninsula the name by which it would eventually reach the West. North Korea has issued commemorative gold in his name partly to assert dynastic continuity with a pre-division Korean identity, sidestepping the ideological complications of more recent history.
KM#815 is a collector-targeted issue with negligible circulation history.