wow, 2 weeks.. thats cool! If he does, and if you do... you will have to posy pics of what you are able to get
you are sooo lucky lol why cant i have relatives who travel the world and get me currency at face value make sure you thank him a billion times in advance... you know - to try to entice him to be nice and bring you some home lol Good luck, and i look forward to seeing what, if any, you get
thats how i have most of my foreign currency, i have a ton of French Franks from when they went to France and i have the usual 25 iraqi Dinari from when my dad was stationed in Bahrain for the NAVY and a sweet full framed Bharain Coin set
sorry about the horrible pics, 11:40 after track meet, and i'm about to go to bed, the 500 and 5,000 won were new editions i just took another 100 piece, i have everything in current SK currency except for the 1 and 5 won and the 10,000 bill, the 10k is only worth $6, i don't know why my dad did not get one for me, o well, hopefully he goes back and definitely comes back safe so i can finish out my collection, my brother got a really sweet display thing that had various year coins of all the coins of South Korea, the coins all are in good condition probably slightly Near mint or slightly below that with also a stamp with it, it is a coin and stamp of Korea display, i guess they only have one stamp, very interesting, the 5,000 has no major creases but it is slightly curves upward, i will put it under some of my dad's law books to flatten it out, if i should not do that please tell me, but if i do do it a crease should not form
That's pretty cool there. I remember my time in SK and you couldn't find a 1 or 5 won piece anywhere except maybe a coin shop and I didn't speak enough korean to get directions to one.
Nice of your dad to bring you back some items!! Even better you have almost a complete set (if you have doubles, PM me) As for flattening the note, iw ouldnt do it. Sure it might get rid of the 'curves' but it could also rid the note of any pesky embossing. Original embossing is not something you want to be rid of!!!
Very cool...Fathers day is not that far away ya know...something special for him would be appreciated I am sure! RickieB
I was stationed there in 2000 and I don't recall seeing anything smaller than a 10 won coin in circulation (and even then pretty rarely... found a few 50 won coins, but it was pretty uncommon to see anything smaller than 100 won anymore). I have a few 1 and 5 won coins from the 70's and early 80's that my dad got when he was on a short duty assignment there about 1984 or so. When I was there the exchange rate was about 1200 won to the US dollar. Believe it's close to 1000 now (more from the dollar weakening than the won strengthening, but a little bit of both.) Wish I saved some paper money... I have tons of coins from there though.
1 dollar it is 1,330.99 South Korean Won, the 1 and 5 won coin i saw in the mentioned coin/stamp set my brother got a pic is coming i just don't have my camera right now. His 1 coin is from 1983 and his 5 coin is from 1971, they may have stopped making them. Daggarjon i will have to take a look i have a ton of coins and about 5 1,000 bills. My dad thinks he heard that they may start making bills higher than 10,000 ($7.5).
I was looking online though its from Wikipedia for all the doubters but there are circulating 1 and 5 won coins though they must just be rarely used, also on wikipedia it says that in June 2009 a 50,000 is going to be released, Daggarjon PM sent
Hey, check out my first-year type set for South Korea: http://www.geocities.com/mlovmo/album.html or http://www.geocities.com/mlovmo/collection.html
very nice unfortunately, alot of the coins are to blurry to make out details nice setup and presentation :thumb:
Not as blurry now... My Korean first-year typeset is now viewable (not blurry). Every coin is the first year that each type was made. In BU condition (or as darn close as possible). http://www.geocities.com/mlovmo/album.html
My dad just got back from a 3 week stint in South Korea so he brought back 1 of the 1000 and 5000 and then he also brought my first 10,000 note, it green, hopefully i can get a pic up. So here is Wiki links The observe The reverse
