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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2126714, member: 16729&quot;]Here&#039;s the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin IS worth a premium, but perhaps not for the weird edge: It is dated &quot;1971&quot;, an unusual date for this silver proof series.&nbsp; I wrote an article about these silver coins a couple of years ago.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coinweek.com/education/coin-guide/the-five-millennia-history-of-korea-gold-and-silver-commemorative-coins-of-1970/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/education/coin-guide/the-five-millennia-history-of-korea-gold-and-silver-commemorative-coins-of-1970/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinweek.com/education/coin-guide/the-five-millennia-history-of-korea-gold-and-silver-commemorative-coins-of-1970/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was not made in Korea by the Korean Mint, KOMSCO. It was probably made at the State Mint in Karlsruhe, Germany, or in Arezzo, Italy by the Gori and Zucchi Mint. This series of silver coins were sold and distributed by Italcambio (a Caracas-based business run by an Italian mobster that sold several other silver proof coins for countries in the 1960s and 1970s). Places like Equatorial Guinea and &quot;Dahomey&quot;. The Koreans didn&#039;t have the minting capabilities to produce silver proofs at their mint in 1970-1974, so they contracted this work out.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]404108[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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