What follows is an interesting letter written over 60 years ago that I found in the National Archives. It's a letter in which the Assistant...
These were sales outside of Korea, correct? I know these rare examples shown above are well-known in the non-Korean numismatic community, and...
Yeah, the Fan Death thing should be pretty debunked by now. That was one interesting urban legend. The claim in the media was that the blades of...
More like 3 decades, but I get your point... Yes, there must be whales there. Ones that hold onto their coins, too: You just don't see these...
[ATTACH] I was surprised at the price for a Five-Won Gold coin from the Korean Empire era (1908), even though this auction happened back in 2016...
For sale is a new price guide for Korean coins from the author of South Korean Coins in the Era of Development. This price guide gives auction...
The coins are marked with dates that sometimes don't reflect the actual years they were struck, but they did most of the time. I got the dates of...
Just locations. The old facilities were torn down on the "end dates" of each one. After November 1904, all Korean coins were minted in Japan...
Another great title! This one I have...
Those are great titles. Thanks for sharing!
David Hartill has recently published two new books on 1) Chinese Amulets and 2) Chinese Gaming tokens They're available from Amazon UK, so...
What denominations are these? 25 Aurar and...?
Sweet album page. What album product is this?
Here are the locations of the three Korean mints that stood in the late 19th century in Korea. These mints produced Korea's first struck coins....
Yeah, it's a recreation of traditional mother-of-pearl and lacquer inlay work. The box is not printed that way, either. It has some relief to...
Someone I know visited Seoul last month and secured these three Korean mint sets (2021, 2022, 2023) for me... [ATTACH]
The book has been selling well at $68 USD, but I am offering a temporary discount for the months of July and August 2023.... [ATTACH]
The design of the main device looks like the seal ("coat of arms") for a school or a university. And yes, the Chinese characters say "여고" (in...
Will great-grandpa be a source of funding for these future collections?
won (圓): The currency in China and Korea for many years was referred to as won, or in Chinese transliteration into English 'yuan' (圓), indicating...
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