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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 26788033, member: 16729&quot;]I have found some exonumia on eBay, some others I find in other markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>It helps to have a focus on &quot;LCCS.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;LCCS&quot; is my term for &quot;Less-Commonly Collected Stuff.&quot;&nbsp; If you collect what everyone else is looking for, it likely makes finding those things in the market a bit harder.&nbsp; If what you&#039;re looking for is U.S. exonumia, then coin shows (big or small), are a very good place to search.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I was into US exonumia, I&#039;d chat up those dealers who specialize in it.&nbsp; You can also find those dealers online.&nbsp; Let &#039;em know what you&#039;re looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>My exonumia focus is items that were made by or for the Korean Mint or Bank of Korea.&nbsp; I like their bronze medals and other items made for the celebration of Bank or Mint events or anniversaries.&nbsp; I also like original mint bags.&nbsp; I can find these on ebay (like both of the medals in the bottom left photo) on rare occasion.&nbsp; However, it is in the Korean numismatic market where you have to go to find rarer items, like this coin bank made in commemoration of the completion of the new mint in the town of Gyeongsan in 1975 (top left).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>EBay search has become rather odd nowadays (they changed it somehow), but I discovered that I could find things by searching using <b>different search terms </b>than the ones I normally used.&nbsp; That&#039;s how I came upon this 10-Won coin mint bag from 1966 (right).&nbsp; This is the only mint bag (with or without coins) that I have ever seen from the first year that these coins were issued.&nbsp; It even has a provenance, as the guy who sold it to me told me he personally found it in a locker on a US Army base that year.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1709926[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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