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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 3618283, member: 16729&quot;]Darn good question!</p><p>I&#039;m guessing that the dates were applied by hand in the case of the one on the left.&nbsp; They might have asked the Osaka (Japan) Mint or the medallist firm, John Pinches in London to make the one on the right, and when that one shattered (or something) they applied the date to a &quot;spare&quot; hub (coin on the left) by hand.&nbsp; Both of those mints (Osaka, John Pinches) are cited in their histories as the only sources of their master dies for their circulation coins up to 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this is something I should ask my contacts...but neither of them were around at that time.&nbsp; All of the people involved are all almost certainly dead, or impossible to contact.&nbsp; I just found out last month that the author of the only book on South Korean coins (and former Korean Mint designer since 1965) died about five years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I only notice a difference in the serifs with the &quot;1&quot;s.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;6&quot;s are different, too.&nbsp; This does make me think that at least the date on the left was applied by hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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