North Korea 5 won 2005 varieties

Taneli Perätalo sent this image from his own collection, after discovering a very interesting variety of the aluminium North Korean 5 won 2005. Both coins have identical reverse:



Here you can see significantly different obverse designs:



(news and images from Taneli Perätalo)

North Korea - Redenomination

New circulating coins:

1 New Won = 100 Old Won

1 jeon and 5 jeon coins were minted in 2008 and bear the issuing year, whereas the 1 won coin and 50 and 10 jeon coins bear year 2002.
Therefore, there is a high possibility that they were printed in 2002 when the July 1st Economic Management Reform Measures were adopted.



(information and images by Fran Pascual and Glen Warren)

LINK: Daily NK