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1 Won
| Issuer | Soviet Red Army Command (Korea) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | First Won (1947-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Green note printed in a single color, with the issuing authority inscription in Korean across the top panel within a rectangular cartouche. The central vignette consists of a large circular guilloche rosette bearing the Chinese-Korean denomination characters 壹원, surrounded by elaborate scrollwork and floral ornamental designs filling the field. The year 1945 appears below the central rosette, with a legal tender clause in Korean script along the lower border panel; numeral 1 appears in each of the four corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹원 화폐위조자는 전시법령에 처벌함 (Translation: One Won, Money counterfeiters will be punished by wartime laws and regulations) |
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These notes were printed in the Soviet Union before the Red Army crossed into Korea in August 1945, part of a suite of military occupation currency (1 Won through 100 Won) introduced to give Soviet troops a means of acquiring goods without drawing directly on Korean Bank notes. The issuing authority was the Red Army command itself, not any Korean financial institution — a deliberate arrangement that kept Soviet military expenditure formally separate from the existing colonial currency infrastructure left by Japan.
The print date of 30 April 1945 places production squarely in the final days of the European war, months before Korea was even a theatre of operations.