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Total commemorative banknotes issued is under 1,500 pieces. If you have achieved any figures close to this, then you are doing extremely well, as many of the older commemorative notes are hard to find even in poor conditions.

Opinion: Many collectors of commemorative banknotes would have come across with those Somaliland sets overprinted with gold and silver texts with the following wordings - 5th Anniversary of Independence 18 May 1996 [Sanad Gurade 5ee Gobanimadda 18 May 1996]. I believe these are "home made" (or fake) and not authorised by the central bank. My argument is simple. No central bank would have issued an overprint commemorative banknote that the texts are so large that it would cover the two signatures on the note as well as part of the serial numbers. Even if these are genuine notes, then these could be issued as souvenir sheets and not as legal tender. As I said before, this is my opinion. If you have paid top dollars for these, please think about my argument. There is always a sucker around the corner, including me of course!

All comments are most welcome but it has to be subjects related to banknotes or banknotes collection. If not, it will not be approved. Thanks

17 March 2018

North Korea - 5000 Won 2017 Commemorative Kim Jong-Suk

조선민주주의인민공화국
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

This is a commemorative collector note of 5000 won issued in 2017 commemorating the 100th Birthday Anniversary of the late Kim Jong-Suk (김정숙/金正淑) who died in 1949. Kim Jong-Suk was the first wife of Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994) who ruled North Korea from 1948 to until his death in 1994. Based on this new issue, it would have suggested that Kim Jong-Suk was born in circa 1917. However various searches on the Internet have suggested that she may have been born in 1919. Most people would have agreed that she died when she was in her late 20s, however the circumstances as to how she died was not clear.

Is this a collector series note printed with 7 zeros but without the usual words "견본" (sample/specimen) printed across? It is not clear if any normal serial numbered notes have been issued for circulation. More importantly, are these notes legit or just a novelty printed for whatever celebration they wanted it to be? If this is the case, who printed them? There must be a simple explanation why these notes are all printed with zeros. The design of this note is the same as the one that first issued in 2014 (P67 dated 2013) except that the following commemorative texts are printed on the watermark area - 항일의녀성영웅김정숙동지탄생100돐기념 (basically translated as; The heroine of anti-Japanese, heroine Kim Jong-Suk's 100th birthday).

Five Thousand Won
Dated 2013 (2017), ㄱㄷ Prefix
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Five Thousand Won
Dated 2013 (2017), ㄱㅌ Prefix
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4 comments:

  1. Sachchidanand R. SwamiJuly 5, 2018 at 9:00 PM

    Thanks a lot for valuable info!

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  2. UnknownAugust 26, 2018 at 6:25 AM

    Are these commemorative North Korean Won of 5000 a legal tender/banknote which is used as currency within the country or only printed as samples and not actual banknotes

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  3. meAugust 15, 2020 at 9:21 PM

    Thanks Sachidanand Swami.

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  4. meAugust 15, 2020 at 9:21 PM

    Hi Unknown,

    The above notes posted are for collectors only as it has all zeros serial numbers. I am not sure if any circulating notes were issued but in North Korea, the Chinese Yuan is just as popular in the country.

    Thanks

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