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2000 Won
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 2000 Won |
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| Reverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 중앙은행 이천원 2000 (Translation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Central Bank, Two Thousand Won, 2000) |
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| Variants | P#65a(1) - Korean text at lower left on front without UV activity P#65a(2) - Korean text at lower left on front with UV activity |
| Comments |
The 2008 date places this note squarely within the period when the DPRK was quietly expanding its domestic denomination range ahead of the catastrophic 2009 redenomination, which wiped out personal savings by converting old won to new at 100:1 with strict exchange caps. Notes of this vintage effectively became worthless to ordinary citizens overnight — the government allowed households to exchange only a limited ceiling, leaving anyone with significant cash holdings unable to recover their funds.
A watermark as the sole documented security feature reflects the technological limits of the Pyongyang printing infrastructure at the time.