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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2721644, member: 16729"]Is it "common?" I really have no idea just how many survivors there are out there, and in what condition, of course. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I know is what I see online and what their prices are, and how often I come upon them in the coin shops in Seoul when I visit every-other-year. The mint strikes seem quite common, and in practically every shop in the little cluster of tiny coin shops in the Hoehyeon Underground Arcade near the old Bank of Korea building. The unfrosted proofs are obtainable in Korea, usually at the better coin shops (sujipbank), and the unfrosted proofs come up once every five years or so, usually in one of those velvet-lined two-coin presentation set boxes along with a frosted proof 5,000 Won coin. If you click on the link in my signature, you'll see more info on these coins. It is common for these bigger coin shops to have an unopened-from-1978 mint bag of the regular mint strikes for sale. For Korean coins, that usually is an indicator that sizable numbers of such coins just laid around in the vaults for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW:</p><p>There is a HUGE coin-collecting boom in South Korea, currently. Untold numbers of people have been exposed to the key date S. Korean pieces through the mimetic nature of the South Korean media's myriad TV shows and talk-radio shows in the last two years that highlighted "rare Korean coins" or "rare coins in your change," with many of the proprietors of the shops that I visit getting interviewed again and again. This is national news, mind you! My youtube videos are getting massive views after years of getting 1 or 2 views a week(!), all from viewers in Korea. Prices for the key mint sets (1998) and other key dates (1970 Bronze 10 Won) are going through the roof... It's really an interesting thing to see...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2721644, member: 16729"]Is it "common?" I really have no idea just how many survivors there are out there, and in what condition, of course. What I know is what I see online and what their prices are, and how often I come upon them in the coin shops in Seoul when I visit every-other-year. The mint strikes seem quite common, and in practically every shop in the little cluster of tiny coin shops in the Hoehyeon Underground Arcade near the old Bank of Korea building. The unfrosted proofs are obtainable in Korea, usually at the better coin shops (sujipbank), and the unfrosted proofs come up once every five years or so, usually in one of those velvet-lined two-coin presentation set boxes along with a frosted proof 5,000 Won coin. If you click on the link in my signature, you'll see more info on these coins. It is common for these bigger coin shops to have an unopened-from-1978 mint bag of the regular mint strikes for sale. For Korean coins, that usually is an indicator that sizable numbers of such coins just laid around in the vaults for decades. BTW: There is a HUGE coin-collecting boom in South Korea, currently. Untold numbers of people have been exposed to the key date S. Korean pieces through the mimetic nature of the South Korean media's myriad TV shows and talk-radio shows in the last two years that highlighted "rare Korean coins" or "rare coins in your change," with many of the proprietors of the shops that I visit getting interviewed again and again. This is national news, mind you! My youtube videos are getting massive views after years of getting 1 or 2 views a week(!), all from viewers in Korea. Prices for the key mint sets (1998) and other key dates (1970 Bronze 10 Won) are going through the roof... It's really an interesting thing to see...[/QUOTE]
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