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500 Won 41st World Table Tennis Championships
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Weight | 31.10 g |
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| Reverse description | Two table tennis players in dynamic action are depicted in high relief against a mirror-polished field, representing the unified Korean team: one player stands in the background preparing to return a shot, while a second lunges forward in the foreground executing a forehand smash, a ball visible above the net. A full-width table tennis net and table edge run across the lower central field. The denomination '500 WON' is inscribed in large characters beneath the net. The circumferential legend 'XLI. WORLD TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP' arcs around the upper border, while '● KOREA UNIFIED TEAM ●' is distributed across the lower border, separated by pellets. |
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| Mintage | 1991 - Proof - 5,000 |
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The 41st World Table Tennis Championships were held in Chiba, Japan in 1991 — a tournament that became one of the most politically charged sporting events of the Cold War's final chapter. North and South Korea fielded a unified team, competing together for the first time under a single flag. The joint women's team defeated China, ending the Chinese stranglehold on the championship that had run unbroken for years.
Pyongyang issued this coin almost certainly to claim that victory as its own.