I came into possession of a lovely collection of images of DPRK bank-notes. (You can go ahead and make your own forgery-related one-liners in the comments.)
I was amused to see that the fiver (above) is nuclear-themed.
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What’s the structure on the reverse, it looks vaguely Joseon.
— Azr@el · Jul 23, 04:32 PM ·
Is there something about the figure “5”?….
When I was a child, this was the 5 Israeli Lira banknote:
http://www.princeton.edu/~jbourjai/images/money/einstein12.jpg
(maybe this picture will be uploaded?)
It is depicted the US supplied nuclear reactor located at Soreq, near Ashdod.
There are more banknotes from around the world with nuclear motifs on them, one of the recent is from Iran.
— Tal Inbar · Jul 24, 01:17 AM ·
What a great economic stimulus instrument! Since most people would prefer to avoid radiation sickness, they’ll spend those bank notes fast, so that will increase the velocity of the money! Both schoolgirls and pensioners going shopping love them.
— Daniel Pinkston · Jul 24, 01:31 AM ·
So are their treasury yields measured in Won tons then?
Err… sorry.
— Tom F · Jul 24, 01:19 PM ·
Looks to me like that’s a lithium atom. Hmmm, think they’re trying to tell us something…?
— Fred Reinheimer · Jul 25, 04:53 PM ·
Maybe it has something to do with bipolar disorder (we are supposedly in a unipolar world now, right?)
— Uncle Glenny · Jul 26, 03:47 AM ·
If there is a one to one correspondence between the NK Won and the SK Won, then the NK 5 Won note is worth less than 0.4 cents US.
Does anyone know its actual exchange value? I understand that NK Won are not traded but it would be interesting to know their equivalent worth.
— Wramblin' Wreck · Jul 26, 02:49 PM ·
~3540 North Korean wons are on par with a U.S. dollar. Thus a DPRK 5 won note is roughly 1/7 of a U.S. penny and about 2.8 times as much as a hypothetical South Korean Five Won note. Note in South Korea the smallest bank note you’re likely to run across is the 1000 ROK Won Note, ~80 US cents. Below that are coins, 500 Wons down to 10 Wons, with the 10 ROK won coin playing the role of a U.S. penny.
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2009/02/07/2008-dprk-won-exchange-rate/
— Azr@el · Jul 27, 06:44 PM ·
time to make peace between N and S Korea
— FSB · Aug 6, 07:33 AM ·