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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 8607801, member: 4373&quot;]This is one of those mystical white elephant coins that does not appear in the market. There&#039;s one on ebay at the moment but at an absurd price. Mine is holed but this is really hard to find in any condition. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.omnicoin.com/coins/1060723.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is issued by the Russo-Korean bank dated 1902. You can see that it has an eagle influence similar to the Russian double head eagle. I don&#039;t know where it was struck but possibly in Korea. Supposedly the bank only lasted for a short period of time due to pressure from the English and Japanese. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins struck in 1898</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/931437.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coins struck in 1905 (when Korea became a Japanese protectorate) </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/957843.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coinweek has reported on this </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/a-world-of-money-extremely-rare-russian-domination-of-korea-5-chon/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/a-world-of-money-extremely-rare-russian-domination-of-korea-5-chon/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/a-world-of-money-extremely-rare-russian-domination-of-korea-5-chon/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Supposedly many of these coins were confiscated by the Japanese and melted down. It is not known how many still remain today but I can&#039;t imagine it to be in the thousands judging by the scarcity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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