500 Hwan

Features

Issuer South Korea
Issuing bank Bank of Korea (한국은행)
Period Republic (1948-date)
Type Standard banknote
Year 4294 (1961)
Calendar Korean - Dangun
Value 500 Hwan
Currency Hwan (1953-1962)
Composition Paper
Size 156 × 73 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 10 June 1962
Number
N#
210718
References P# 27
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

King Sejong the Great

Script: Hangul

Lettering:
한국은행권
오백 환

한국은행
4294

Translation: Korean banknote, Five Hundred Hwan, The Bank of Korea

Reverse

Main building of the Bank of Korea

Scripts: Hangul, Latin

Lettering:
500 THE BANK OF KOREA 500

오백 500 HWAN 오백

Translation: Five Hundred

Printer

Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Daejeon, South Korea

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
4294-Apr-19 (1961) 

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