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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 3454819, member: 4373&quot;]I got around to free up a bit of time and decided to work on the early Korean machine coinage. Had to rephotograph everything as I used different cameras along the way and the photos look terrible. I&#039;m still improving on my photography skills (and website skills at the same time...) Some day I would like to redesign the digital album as I designed it back a decade ago. This was designed in A4 size instead of the slightly smaller B5 size that Dansco and other manufacturers use. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some minor things that I discovered while I was photographing these coins are that the alignments are just all over the place! One cannot use the &#039;dots&#039; for alignment. It is known that the early Gwangmu coins are meant to be aligned where the dragons&#039; head are in a vertical line. Unlike the Japanese coins, they are often aligned with dots around the character &#039;x sen&#039; or to the Meiji character. The same also happens with the dragon coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest offender that I noticed is with the phoenix alignment for coins struck 1905 - 1910. Even with major TPGs - most catalog and slabs that I have seen are aligned to the bottom dots &quot;x chon&quot;. Instead I strongly believe that the alignment is meant to be where the phoenix&#039;s head is held high at 12 o&#039;clock instead of the rooster like alignment at 10 o&#039;clock.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I can close the book on this collection - I have done the best for the past decade and that will be it for me (for now). All other coins are too rich for my blood. </p><p><br /></p><p>I personally like how they look like for size comparison</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/korea_early/1892_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Added some reading material if you are into this particular coinage. The digital album is also quite neat - those holes shall be left as it is! </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/koreatype_early_all.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/koreatype_early_all.htm" rel="nofollow">http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/koreatype_early_all.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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