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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3181357, member: 16729"]First, I'm not sure that the dies WERE made in Korea at all at this time.  Here's what I know:  The first domestically-made coins in South Korea were struck at newly-made Mint near the south-coast city of Pusan (new spelling: Busan) in late 1966.  The collars and working dies for these coins were manufactured in Great Britain by John Pinches Co. Ltd., a private medallist firm in London.  The trail sort of goes cold from there.  I have not figured out who made the 10-Won coin master/working dies from 1967 to 1982, nor where these pieces of tool steel were fabricated for striking the 10-Won coin.  And except for 1976, this coin was struck every year since 1966. Second, it IS known from published sources (published by the Mint and a former designer) that the master dies for two later coins that came out in 1970 (100-Won) and 1972 (50-Won) were made at the Osaka Mint in Japan. In 1975 the Koreans made their very first locally-produced master dies for a commemorative coin.  The first master dies made for a circulation coin were made for the 500-Won coin in 1982. However, who made the working dies for South Korean coins in this period? There seems to have been an increasing capability at the South Korean Mint over the years, and perhaps during the years when they were importing master dies from overseas, they had started to punch their own working dies at some time in the late 1960s or sometime in the 1970s.   This is all conjecture on my part. So this repunched date could have happened in Korea, or perhaps Japan, or maybe in Britain.  This is one of my research questions that I'll ask if I can get an audience as a journalist after I register with the Bank of Korea's media department, perhaps this coming Summer. [/QUOTE]

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