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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 3032246, member: 16729&quot;]The &quot;Paris Mint&quot; set does indeed only include gold coins from Paris, while the silver coins in the Paris Mint set were minted at the Gori &amp; Zucchi Mint in Arezzo, Italy (with the &quot;1 AR&quot; mint mark) or at the German state mint in Karlsruhe.&nbsp; That is correct.&nbsp; The enthusiasts call these sets &quot;the Paris Mint set,&quot; in any case.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Paris Mint sets do NOT include the big gold coin, the 25,000-Won with Sejong Daewang (Great King Sejong), however.&nbsp; The Paris Mint sets include just the other 11 coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; That 25,000-Won gold Paris Mint piece seems to have been a &quot;sold separately&quot; coin.&nbsp; It appears that this set has the 25,000-Won piece as an &quot;add on.&quot;&nbsp; Perhaps this was a set gifted to a very high-level Park Chung-hee administration official, and has stayed in Korea since the early seventies?&nbsp;&nbsp; All Paris Mint gold coins can be identified by looking for the cornucopia mark at the 8 o&#039;clock position on the coins&#039; reverses.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold coins that were NOT minted by the <i>Monnaie de Paris</i> (the majority of the gold coins) were minted at the Valcambi Mint in Switzerland.&nbsp; Krause cites this, and so do the Third-Party Grading companies in their holders for these coins.&nbsp; The Korean literature on these coins is rather small, so only an investigation into the mint records of these various location might shed light on actual mintages and dates of mintage.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the whole article that Art W. cited above:&nbsp; That&#039;s my writing.&nbsp; I wish there were more people with better resources than I have writing about this set of coins.&nbsp; They&#039;re interesting artifacts of an interesting period of time in numismatics and high-shenanigans Korean government activity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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