Communists on coins

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Vietnam, 20 dong, 1989.  Ho Chi Minh commemorative.

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Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994), the father of communist North Korea, began his political life by fleeing Japanese rule of his homeland. After some Soviet training and membership in a local communist party, Kim returned to Korea during World War II and established a communist government in 1948. While promising great wealth for his country, Kim suppressed his people and fashioned a militaristic society. In 1950 he instigated the Korean War, in an attempt to reunify the peninsula, but he was rebuffed by U.S. and UN forces.

From the mid-1960s, he promoted his self-developed Juche variant of national socialist organisation, which later replaced Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state in 1972. When Kim Il-Sung died in 1994, his son Kim Jong-Il succeeded him. The North Korean government refers to Kim Il-sung as "The Great Leader", and he is designated in the North Korean constitution as the country's "Eternal President". His birthday is a public holiday in North Korea.

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North Korea, 10 won, 1992.  Kim Il-Sung's 80th birthday.

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North Korea, 20 won, 1994.  Death of Kim Il-Sung.

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Somalia 25 shillings 2000 millennium icons - Che Guevara.

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Somalia Bimetallic 250 shillings 2000 millennium icons - Che Guevara.

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Image from the Coin Invest site.

Mongolia just issued two coins (one silver, one gold) that commemorate Fidel Castro.

More information about the silver piece is here.

Somewhere at the bottom you find a link to the gold version.

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Mongolia, 1 tugrik, 1971.

50th anniversary of the Mongolian revolution.

The reverse of the coin features Damdin Sükhbaatar.

From Wikipedia:

Damdin Sükhbaatar (1893 – 1923) was a Mongolian communist revolutionary, founding member of the Mongolian People's Party, and leader of the Mongolian partisan army that took Khüree during the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921. For his part in the Outer Mongolian revolution of 1921, he was enshrined as the "Father of Mongolia's Revolution".