1 Won Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping

North Korea has issued commemorative brass pieces tied to diplomatic events before, but the 2019 date here aligns with a period of intensive summitry — Kim Jong-un met Xi Jinping four times between March 2018 and January 2019, the most frequent leader-to-leader contact between the two states in decades. These pieces circulate almost exclusively through Chinese border traders and foreign collector channels; they do not enter domestic North Korean circulation in any meaningful way.