Product Description
SCWPM.#11b - TBB.#208b - Date: 1947
Grade: Unc - Signature: none
Description: Colour: Red. - Front: Korean text; bank seal; smokestacks; farmer with hoe; man with sledgehammer.
Back: Korean text; highest peak of Mount General in the Baekdu (whiteheaded) Mountain range; trees. - No security thread. - Watermark: Varieties. - Printer: Unknown. - Size: 169 x 95 mm.
General information:
The watermarked variety of this note was widely counterfeited for use by United Nations forces operating behind enemy lines in North Korea. Genuine notes are typically printed off-center, whereas fakes are perfectly centered.
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.
