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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2943705, member: 16729"]Very kindly of you. I was pretty stoked to win this one, needless to say!</p><p><br /></p><p>What some collectors of S. Korean coins might think is that the best and largest number of these coins are to be found in Korea. Although by now internet sales may have migrated some of the really best examples to Korea, I STILL believe that most of the highest-grade S. Korean coins from the 1960s reside in collections and inventories outside of Korea, with most of them in the USA. I believe that they were brought to the USA by coin-collecting GIs and other foreign visitors to the country in the 1960s, 1970s, and by businesses in the States that assembled "world coin cards" and sets and whatnot when these coins first came out.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, this coin came from a coin-board, maybe an ANCO set(?), that also had a One-Won and Five-Won coin in it. The cardboard smelled like an old library, and it seems obvious to me that the set had probably NEVER been removed from its "shower curtain" clear-plastic slipcover since it was assembled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2943705, member: 16729"]Very kindly of you. I was pretty stoked to win this one, needless to say! What some collectors of S. Korean coins might think is that the best and largest number of these coins are to be found in Korea. Although by now internet sales may have migrated some of the really best examples to Korea, I STILL believe that most of the highest-grade S. Korean coins from the 1960s reside in collections and inventories outside of Korea, with most of them in the USA. I believe that they were brought to the USA by coin-collecting GIs and other foreign visitors to the country in the 1960s, 1970s, and by businesses in the States that assembled "world coin cards" and sets and whatnot when these coins first came out. In fact, this coin came from a coin-board, maybe an ANCO set(?), that also had a One-Won and Five-Won coin in it. The cardboard smelled like an old library, and it seems obvious to me that the set had probably NEVER been removed from its "shower curtain" clear-plastic slipcover since it was assembled.[/QUOTE]
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