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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1338835, member: 16729&quot;]Good to hear from you, gxseries!&nbsp; I was going by the number of 1999 mint sets that were made for that 1999 5 Won coin (which is 8,000).&nbsp; I THINK they only produced the 5 Won coin for that set.&nbsp; I&#039;ll check the population size from both my Krause and Daewonsa books to make sure.&nbsp; It might be 10,000, like the 1995, 1996, 1997.&nbsp; Thanks for pointing that out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The master dies for the first series of coins (1966) were done in London by the John Pinches Mint.&nbsp; They also made the working dies for the Koreans, too.&nbsp; The 100 and 50 Won coins&#039; master dies were done by the Osaka Mint, but the Koreans were able to make the working dies themselves.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think &quot;absolute bitter enemies&quot; is maybe a bit of an exaggeration:&nbsp; The ROK and Japan signed a treaty of recognition and exchanged embassies in 1965, and relations, on a government-to-government level (outside of some serious disagreements and &quot;episodes&quot;) were actually not too bad at all.&nbsp; Requesting master dies from Japan was just one example of the kind of economic cooperation that was going on after the treaty was signed.&nbsp; Japanese companies shared technology, such as car and engine designs, with the Koreans. The USA encouraged this, of course, too.&nbsp; Also, there were plenty of people in the Korean government and business who worked under the Japanese in the past.&nbsp; Indeed, the ROK president himself was a graduate of the Manchurian Military Academy and served in the Japanese Kwangtung Army in Jilin Province in China, hunting down a certain pesky (but not too dangerous) guerilla fighter by the name of Kim Il-sung(!)&nbsp; So perhaps the Koreans knew a little bit better about how Japanese systems worked, compared to say, the American or British way of doing things.&nbsp; Also the Japanese had to completely rebuild their industry after the Pacific War, and the Koreans wanted to learn how do the same thing after their civil war.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I might make some additions to that webpage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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