Found a scan of the book cover. [img] Issued by the Bank of Korea. I believe it was issued in 1969 / 1970. If you can find it and offered at...
I believe the small Japanese gold bu coins is classified as white gold as it's made with low grade gold and silver.
Good pickup @The Eidolon . Will update. It's perfect timing as I have to add in this [img] A pattern tribute coin which you can see the Russian...
@The Eidolon : Silly me - I knew I did a fair bit of research on this. I have already done this on my site...
Eidolon - I know no Korean. This period of Korean coinage sparks my interest as it reflects the start up of a new currency as well as involvement...
There is a book that was issued by the Bank of Korea back in 1970s which covers this. Back in mid 1800s where various mints were setup to rip...
You are right about politics. China especially yuan Shi kai - well known as fat man on Chinese silver coins strongly opposed such naming....
I disagree. Gold in my opinion is over priced in today's world. If you look at the historical price of gold, it has only drastically increased in...
5 pounds back in the days would be like the equivalent of 500 pound coin. https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php...
If you like Christmas and have kids, this coin would be hard to pass up [IMG]
Sometimes the more you dig into the origins of gold, the more you realize how tainted this metal is. Take for instance California gold rush and...
There is always a possibility and has been shown in history. Here's one example - [img] In 1931 in Kweichow (Guizhou) Province, China -...
Shanghai tael. Not genuine. Excessively rare. A genuine example looks like this...
I've used Photoshop and merged all images as pdf. Each photo is taken individually and labelled accordingly. Takes a while to do it but the...
Revived an old thread... this album is now complete! I sold some duplicates off my collection and saved as much as I could for quite a while....
Good question - I do not know if there is such an organization. These days many world mints don't even produce planchets themselves. Australia for...
This is a very interesting piece!!! Thanks for showing - that worked out to be a challenge. From what I understand: 平遠縣 (written from right to...
I love scientific article like this. Keep up the good work!!! As Conder101 mentioned, I am genuinely intrigued over how steel was made back in...
Education? Not a problem. This is an example purchased about 10 years ago. [img] A rather rare Gansu fat man "coin". If genuine, this is easily...
If the exact same planchets are shipped to China and are used for overstrike, what difference does it make? It's hypocrisy - nothing more,...
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