Check this out... It took me a year to save up to buy this Korean mintset. Only 8,000 of these on the planet! The 1998 500Won coin only comes in this mintset. It cost me $1,250.00, but I'm happy, as all the coins are flawless. Whew! Now the only other ones that I need to get are only about 300 bucks a piece, and I only need three of them, then I'M DONE! NOW I can upload my 500 Won coin collection at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCPvZLpEDw I'd like to see 1990s Korean mintsets like these on internet shopping sites more often, but they only come up about once a year, it seems. Anybody else have Korean mintsets?
it doesnt matter if there is none at all. nice pick up. not something i would go after but still nice. congrats on getting some so hard to find
No gold or silver. I don't collect any "yellow discs" (gold). It just contains the MOST difficult-to-obtain regular-strike coin in the entire South Korean series. It's the coin on the far right. The one with the Manchurian Crane on the obverse.
Congratulations for the rare mintset. It's a tough one set that doesn't come that often. I had it offered to me by three different people but I didn't fancy paying over 1000USD. You can probably pick up a nice half won silver (1905-1908) set for that price you paid for.
I guess it all depends on what you collect. I don't collect any Korean Kingdom or Empire coins. I only do "current-era" (1959-present) South Korea, so any early 20th C. half-won silver set doesn't really interest me (at this time). I collect nothing else (except Lincolns). Also, I'm more of a coin collector, not so much a dealer. I don't really go for things based on "value" or future value, but more towards just filling out my collection. Any time I come across a "steal" at a coin show (like finding and buying a 1969 10Won in flawless BU in a two-by-two in someone's "half-price" bin for 7 bucks) I will sell it just to make money to buy the things that I don't currently have, like this hard-to-find (and pricey) mintset.
