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5 Won

Issuer Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Year 2002
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Value 5 Won
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Obverse description Central vignette presents two male figures in intaglio portrait — a bespectacled man in a suit and tie alongside a younger man wearing a military-style cap — set against a multicolour guilloche underprint incorporating an atomic orbit motif and globe design to the left. The national emblem appears in the upper left corner, with the denomination numeral "5" rendered in large format at lower left and lower right, and the Korean denomination text 오원 at lower right.
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Reverse description The central vignette carries a detailed intaglio rendering of a large hydroelectric dam with water cascading down its stepped face, flanked by high-voltage electricity transmission towers and insulator stacks in the foreground, conveying the state's industrial power programme. A stylised floral and star emblem appears at upper left, with denomination numerals "5" at lower left within a guilloche oval cartouche and at upper right, while the Korean denomination text 오원 is placed at lower right against a light multicolour underprint.
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