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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1795395, member: 16729&quot;]<font face="arial">I would like more opinions on individually numbered coins:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial">I wrote and published on the internet this article ( </font><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.dokdo-research.com/fivemillenia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dokdo-research.com/fivemillenia.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000cc">http://www.dokdo-research.com/fivemillenia.html</span></a></font></span></span><font face="arial"> ) about South Korea&#039;s first gold and silver commemoratives. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial">I asked for responses from some of the first viewers of this article.&nbsp;&nbsp; One commenter had an interesting story (see below).&nbsp; He claims that <b>a coin retailer he once knew did not like the fact that the 25,000 Won Gold and 1,000 Won Silver coins were numbered progressively as they were minted with a counter-stamp</b>.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial">So, If coins are NUMBERED by a mint, does that take anything away from its standing as a &quot;coin&quot;?&nbsp; Does that make it more of a &quot;medal&quot; in your opinion?</font></p><p>___________________________________________________</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">From 1969 to 1971, I worked part-time for a London coin retailer who specialised in modern issues.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">There was very little marketing of these coins in England and we only found out about them by accident when a regular client asked about them.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">Even then, my boss would not buy them.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">The fact that they were to be individually numbered, made them medals not coins (in his view).</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">He felt that Italcambio was a shady outfit, issuing some collectibles for places that did not exist and according to his US friends, possible links to the mafia.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">He decided not to risk his capital on the Korean &#039;coins&#039; and not to risk his reputation on his client&#039;s behalf.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">I think this highlights Italcambio&#039;s lack of marketing in England since I later met people in Europe who had no qualms about buying their products.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial">Incidentally, he wasn&#039;t xenophobic at all, however in those pre-internet days it was both difficult and expensive to get reliable information about foreign companies.</font></span></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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