Thanks for that. This is the only source that mentions "large" versus "small" bust design. So THAT'S why Krause has "35.1" and "35.2" for these...
That's what Krause says. But I have no idea about what the "variety/varieties they are referring. I wonder what they are. I've asked. No...
Yep. 75%/25% CuNi.
I notice a weakening in the design characteristics from the beginning, to the end, of the First Series 100 Won (1970~1982) and the Second Series...
Holy smokes, that's a beaut!
Nothin' going on, man. Let me explain: The pic is just a cropping from our wedding photos. What you can't see is the toothpick in the corner of...
Okay, just don't make fun of the pic. It's a sensitive issue for me...:sorry:
Yep. Pretty beat up. And probably worth nothing. Gwang Mu Year 2 (1898). And possibly fake. I know gxseries has had some say on these in the...
Whoa!
Yes, it seems that they used "medal alignment" for the commems and "coin alignment" for the circulating coins, following similar coin alignments...
Never seen this curious little Korean coin set before......
This is hard part of collecting these year sets: What to do when you need to part with them!? My opinion is that the best option (if money is...
Not an expert in these, but I think the Chinese characters say: "Gwang Mu Year 10" or in the Korean hangul alphabet, "광무 십년" (pronounced 'gwang...
Maybe not for circulation but just for "sales purposes," i.e., collector sets and gift sets? Sweden still has banknotes, from what I understand,...
In an interview from the 1990s, one of South Korea's main currency designers from the 1960s and 1970s said that coin production was wasteful and...
If you study heavily-circulated examples of this South Korean coin, you will begin to notice the overall wear patterns on the main device (Admiral...
Same thought when I first saw it.
I like the look of "striations" on coins (sometimes called "die finishing lines"). These are tiny, raised marks left on coins from coining dies...
Despite Egypt's support of the African National Congress at the time, Egypt and South Africa surprisingly had diplomatic legations in each other's...
I found them at this site, on this page: http://www.valleycoin.com/index.php?cPath=9_409_1482_1484
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