I am doing research into Republic of Philippines coins, the rather overlooked period of P.I. coinage dating 1958 to 1994. It encompasses three different design series. I am now banging my head up against the INSANE listed mintage numbers for the Ang Bagong Lipunan (Ferdinand Marcos' "New Generation") series (1975-1982). Radically different mintage numbers depending on source. Some, like Krause, count coins by the date stamped on them. The U.S. Mint and later Philippine Mint sources count the number of coins made in a particular calendar year, regardless of the year stamped on those coins. However, the U.S. Mint's Annual Report does a good job of ~sometimes~ telling the reader which date was stamped on a certain number of coins that year). And then the Philippines decided to have their coins minted with several mints around the world~! AHHH! Anyone familiar with this series is well aware of the additional madness of the Franklin Mint strikes (in three finishes~!) and nobody really knowing if those numbers are real or not, especially any FM mintages in 1981 and 1982. This is why I was asking in this forum about the disposition of the Franklin Mint's archives. Finding their internal mintage numbers would be an absolute coup and would finally clear up this nest of vipers. This is what I have so far. Anyone wanting to help with additional information, I'd appreciate it. I think I have to go with a mintage table like this. Simply list the multiple sources and what each one says. This is just the madness involved with the One-Sentimo coin!
Update: Noticed an error. Only 10,000 mintage for 1976 Franklin Mint "circulating coins" in the Annual Report (Krause called them "Matte"-finish coins).
Oh, no. I do not have that complete set. I have the 200-Won silver and 50-Won silver (rarer date: 1971). There are actually two of these "Five Millenia" combined gold and silver sets: One is an 11-coin set (minus the big 25,000-Won gold coin). The gold coins of this set were all made in the Paris Mint. These are lower-mintage than the non-Paris Mint gold coins of this series. The Paris Mint gold coins all the "cornucopia" cartouche of the Paris Mint. The other set is a full 12-coin gold and silver set. The Krause catalog says that the gold coins for these sets (without Paris mint cartouche) were made by Valcambi, but the Korean literature does not mention Valcambi at all. I have no reason to doubt that Valcambi was involved. That's probably correct. The silver coins of this series were made at either the German state mints (Karlsruhe gets mentioned a lot), and also the Gori & Zucchi jewlery factory in Arezzo, Italy. Those coins seem to have the "1 AR" cartouche on the them. The "1 AR" is pronounced "Unoaerre" in Italian, which is the name that Gori & Zucchi currently use as the company's name.
Which Korean set was it? The six-coin silver, or the 12-coin full gold and silver? That would have been a nice price for the silver set, if the majority of coins in the set could grade at PF67 or higher. These coin sets (Korea and Biafra) were organized, produced and marketed by Italcambio, an organized crime-linked coin marketer headed by Mario Pizzorni and VP Liliano Maso. They made Italcambio's headquarters in Caracas, but they had a branch in Miami in the 1970s, from which they sold the silver coins of their various world coin sets up to and after 1974 and then probably started selling gold as well after gold was allowed to be bought and sold in the USA. These Italcambio and Paramount International coin sets were looked down upon by coin dealers and the Yeoman catalog in the 1970s. They called them "pseudocoins" or "supercrowns."
Thanks for great history lesson. No, the set was full one, gold and Silver. I remember Italcambio, I ended up getting lots of gold coins thru them. Turkey 500-25 Kurush standard and deluxes full sets, Peru 100, 50, 20, 10 & 5 Soles Chilean ones all BU and cheap. $$$$$ now. Its funny, the Biafra set, came in cheap presentation box, coins were encapsulated. Beautifull designs, better then Nigerian crap coins. Sadly, the world/ UN stood by and let Nigeria commit genocide in 69. Like in 1992 with Hutu killers in Rwanda. The Chad 5 piece set is nice to.
