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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 8451452, member: 16729&quot;]There are NO sources, in either Korea or English, that cover these coins as comprehensively as mine does.</p><p><br /></p><p>The country&#039;s central bank, the Bank of Korea, has its own publications in Korean and English and they cover all banknotes and coins, but these only cover basic facts, and have increasingly left the facts out of their newer publications and have only included glossy photo pages.&nbsp; And the photos of coins are horrendous (nastily corroded coins in their last publication in 2018).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also one book that was written in Korea (in Korean) by a former Korean Mint designer (whom I quote often in my book) back in 2006.&nbsp; That one has information in it that obviously comes from internal Korean Mint documents and Bank of Korea documents, but this one also does not cover any one of the coin issues as much as mine does.&nbsp; Along with using more varied sources of information, and including more detailed information about each coin, my book gives readers an idea of how these coins functioned in the economy of South Korea in their years of circulation.&nbsp; No other book has any of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>My book covers all circulation coins (former and current) up to 2020/2021.&nbsp; The book stops its narrative explanations of the commemorative coins at 1988 (the Seoul Olympics coins) since that coin series seems to represent the pinnacle of the Koreans&#039; efforts to become a fully-functioning national mint that could produce coins on their own and in high quality and large mintages.&nbsp; That&#039;s sort of the end of the &quot;era of development&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I <b>do</b> address all commemoratives since the Seoul Olympics, but only in chart format at the back of the book, with all their specifications, mintages, and descriptions of the designs.&nbsp; They also have incredible illustrations, as with the rest of the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>My book is indeed now the <b>standard reference</b> on South Korean coins, in any language.</p><p>I find it hard to say things with confidence at times, but not that statement![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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