Coin Talk member, gxseries, was kind enough to put some images of a few of my key date coins into a virtual South Korean coin album! Thank you, gxseries for your hard work! Take a look at it from this link: https://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/skorea_type_set_1959_present Here's the cover:
This is such a good post, even Doug liked it! I think this is a "first" in Coin Talk history... Look!:
It's a really beautiful type set. I can customize albums to any countries, era, type etc. All it requires is some spec information, decent photos and my time which unfortunately takes a bit to plan and design. If you are interested in earlier Korean coinage issued during Korean dynasty, this may be of interest: https://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/korea_dynasty_type_set_1888_1910 Published it a while back. Not a type set that I would dream to start again - some rarely appear in the market these days in decent condition.
Very nice. For some reason, I couldn't zoom in to look closer on my iPad. Every time I tried, it would zoom in and then the page/whole book would disappear. I would then zoom back out and a few seconds it would reappear.
That is an interesting bug joe. I don't have an iPad to test it out. It works on android perfectly fine as far as I am aware. Does anyone with an iPad have similar issue?
Issue solved. I went back and tried and it works now! Sometimes my son downloads too many game apps and it really slows down things. Sometimes if I don't delete some, internet explorer closes by itself or other things happen. Maybe this was what happened before when I was trying to look. Anyways, it works now. I'm not familiar with these coins so I really appreciate this album. Thanks for the hard work and for the person who shared!
I really like the reverse of the 1975 commemorative. I've never seen several of these coins, so thanks for the post!
Joe, I am certain the 1975 commemorative is a medal. I personally don't have one in my collection and wouldn't have considered adding it. But again the beauty of this design is I can do literally anything I want with it. The inner pages took less than a few days to do. Biggest time killer was the front cover as I wanted the bring out the details of the iron clad ship. I'm currently trialing out an album design and trying to push it down to less than a week. This includes photographing all the coins down to the design of the album.
You can read about the medal here: http://www.dokdo-research.com/thirtyanniversary.html and here http://dokdo-research.com/thirtyanniversaryimages.html#11
Thank you. If you had to guess, how many of these medals do you think were struck? I also really like the 1975 100 won commem. I have one, but it doesn't look as nice as yours at the top of the article. I really like the proof version as well, especially the mintage number.
That's what I have to clarify when I travel to the South Korean Mint in a couple of years (a tenatively planned research trip). There are no published mintage figures for that medal that I have come upon. Yes, that proof version of the 100 Won commem (1975) is one of the most sought-after commems for high-buck collectors in Korea. When that coin is listed online at the retail establishments in Korea, it almost immediately gets snapped up. Thanks for your interest in my central obsession.
