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500 Won Football World Cup
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 500 Won (500 KPW) |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is centrally depicted in high relief, featuring a hydroelectric power station and mountain landscape beneath a radiant five-pointed star, all framed by sheaves of rice tied with a ribbon inscribed with the state name in Hangul. A decorative laurel branch appears at the lower field. The Hangul legend of the Central Bank of Korea arcs around the upper periphery, while the purity designation '999' and weight '1oz' appear in the left and right fields respectively, with the date '1996' prominently placed in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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North Korea issued a wave of commemorative silver pieces through the 1990s explicitly for the foreign hard-currency collector market — domestic circulation was never the intent. This 500 Won piece tied to football's World Cup was part of that program, produced at a time when the DPRK was simultaneously experiencing its worst famine in modern history, with an estimated 240,000 to 3.5 million deaths between 1994 and 1998. The coins were sold abroad through state-controlled numismatic agencies while the country received international food aid.