Product Description
SCWPM.#28 - TBB.#BFX406a - Date: 1988Grade: Unc.
Description: Colour: Green. - Front: Statue of woman with wheat and man with book riding Chollima (thousandmile horse) on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang; coat of arms. - Back: Guilloche pattern. - No securety thread. - Watermark: None.
Printer: Unknown. - Size: 120 x 60 mm.
General information: 1988 Capitalist Issues
These foreign currency exchange notes (외화와바꾼돈표) were issued by the Trade Bank of DPRK (TB) for use by capitalist visitors exchanging hard currency. They were used until 1999, then officially abolished in 2002, in favor of foreign currencies.
Source: The Banknotebook.
More about: North Korea,officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city.