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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1928327, member: 16729&quot;]Hey, gx:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an old &quot;Coin World&quot; issue from August 1971.&nbsp; The topic of an article in this issue is about these same exact coins&quot;&nbsp; &quot;The Struck Coins of Korea (1884 to date)&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author, Arthur Hyman listed these four sources in his bibliography:</p><p><br /></p><p>Craig, Alan D., &quot;<b>The Coins of Korea and an Outline of Early Chinese Coinage,</b>&quot; Professional Press, Berkeley California, 1955</p><p><br /></p><p>Craig William, D., &quot;<b>Coins of the World, 1750-1850</b>,&quot; Whitman Publishing Co, Racine, Wisconsin</p><p><br /></p><p>Spadone, J. G., &quot;<b>Catalog of Modern Japanese Korean Manchukuo Coins</b>&quot; Phoenix Publishing Co., Tokyo, Japan, 1960.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeoman, R. S. &quot;<b>Modern World Coins</b>,&quot; 9th Ed., 1970, Western Publishing Co., Racine, Wisconsin</p><p><br /></p><p>A few of these titles might be interesting to read, especially the first and third titles.&nbsp; The article itself has lots of info on the Korean mint, the hiring of a German (von Mollendorf) and crew to get the first Korean mint going in 1886.&nbsp; Very good basic info on what what going on at this time up to 1910, when Japanese coins were introduced.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;d like a copy of this article, PM me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, what were the official melt figures?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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