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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 26119297, member: 16729&quot;]I recently obtained a coin-related collectible from Korea that gets crazy attention in the Korean coin market.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s this clear-cast acrylic resin paperweight-style coin set.&nbsp; It was previously owned by a gentleman who passed away in Britain and who had worked for the Bank of Korea there.</p><p><br /></p><p>This &quot;coin set&quot; (is that what it is?) includes a very sought-after condition rarity: The 1987 500-Won coin. The other five coins date &quot;1987,&quot; too, but are not rarities at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>One million mintage for the 1987 500-Won.&nbsp; The evidence (market pricing, average condition of known pieces) suggests that this date heavily circulated although it had a small mintage compared to previous and subsequent dates of the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This acrylic paperweight was made as a celebratory gift upon the 1987 opening of a new &quot;annex building&quot; (a short skyscraper-shaped building, really) that was built directly behind the old Bank of Korea building in the Myeongdong neighborhood of Seoul. You can see the image of the building represented on the inside of the lid of the hinged clamshell case the coin set comes in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year, two of these same acrylic blocks obtained a live-auction sale price at Korea&#039;s Hwadong Auction of 780,000 KRW ($530 USD), one in April, one in October.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question:&nbsp; <b>Is an acrylic block set, even if it contains a &quot;rare date,&quot; a worthy coin collectible?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]CVg5fJpIYj4[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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