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100 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of Korea (Chosun Chungang Unhaeng) |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| In circulation to | 1959 |
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| Obverse description | At left, an oval vignette contains the State Emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, set within a guilloche underprint border and flanked by ornamental corner rosettes. The central area carries an intaglio vignette of an industrial complex with factory smokestacks and a locomotive rendered in dark tones over a pale green and violet guilloche underprint. Denomination numerals '100' appear at lower left and lower right, with the issuer's name and Korean script denomination at upper centre and right. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an engraved landscape view of Mount Kumgang (Kŭmgangsan), with dramatic rocky peaks rising above a calm body of water, executed in olive-green tones. Two symmetrical ornamental cartouches in violet flank the scene, each bearing the Korean script denomination and numeral '100'. A decorative guilloche border with floral corner elements frames the entire composition. |
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The metadata here contains a genuine puzzle: the note carries a 1959 issue date yet the printing date recorded is 30 April 1945 — before the liberation of Korea, before partition, and before either the Bank of Korea or its predecessor had authority over a southern Korean currency. That discrepancy almost certainly reflects a catalog data error, possibly conflating printing records from an earlier colonial-era issue with a later note in the same Pick series. P#17 is attributed to the South Korean Central Bank of Korea under its transitional Korean-language designation, Chosun Chungang Unhaeng, which itself signals the brief institutional overlap between the post-liberation period and the formal establishment of the Bank of Korea in 1950.
The 225 × 95 mm format is notably large relative to later Korean issues of the same denomination.