I've been extremely interested in North Korea for awhile. I read a book about the prison camps and and people who defected from North Korea. This country is so mysterious and downright evil. I'm interested in it and I keep up to date with anything North Korean. I never buy foreign coins but last Sunday I started to chat with a seller that only sold foreign coins. We talked about high school, running, and a bunch of random stuff when I switched the subject to coins. I asked, "Do you have any North Korean coins?" He told me he did and showed me what he had. I bought both of them and that is where my interest started in North Korean coins. What types of coins are there? Do people use these often? Do they make coins every year? Do they have paper money? Any information would be helpful! Here are some pictures of the North Korean coins I bought.
Id like to have some of their coins and that one you have is a very nice one. With that said, I'm not too crazy about coins minted in aluminum. jmho
There are some threads about Korean coins and currency...I'm headed to South Korea and these countries coins interest me very much.
I'll try to find the posts! I haven't gotten into South Korean coins yet. I'll have to take a look at them!
From what I've observed, they seem to make a lot of coins for collectors. Everything I've seen, like the ones you have, are obviously meant for collectors instead of to circulate in North Korea. I've never seen a North Korean coin that didn't have some kind of gimmick.
The DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea is so far off the radar of reality to me, almost like it doesn't really exist because it is so crazy. But then I saw what was obviously a North Korean IL-76 cargo plane in the airport in Beijing a few years ago - probably stocking up on luxury goods for the "Dear Leader" and it brought it all to reality.
