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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1130473, member: 16729&quot;]<b>Oh...wow. Nice website, man.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">Hey, nice website.&nbsp; Very informative and rather extensive.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">I don&#039;t get into Korean coins that are older than 1959, myself, but I will be visiting your webpage more often to take a look it in-depth, as it is related to Korean coins. </font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">I was wondering about the difference between 환 (Hwan) and 원 (Won)...&nbsp; The currency was called the &quot;Hwan&quot; in the 1950s (the 1959 coins that you show on your webpage), but this currency was demonetized in 1962 and the &quot;Won&quot; came out.&nbsp; I know that the Chinese character for &quot;Won&quot; means &quot;round&quot; (as in &quot;round coin&quot;), and derives from the same ideograph (character) used in Chinese for &quot;Yuan&quot; and in Japanese for &quot;Yen,&quot; or so I&#039;ve been told.&nbsp; I never did understand why the Koreans changed the name from Hwan to Won...</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">I am personally interested in finding out who designed and engraved the South Korean coins designs of 1966 (1Won, 5Won, 10Won), 1970 (100Won), 1972 (50Won) and the 1983 redesigns at the Bank of Korea and KOMSCO (한국조폐공사).&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">I&#039;ve enquired several times with both the BOK and KOMSCO (in both English and Korean) and I have yet to receive a decent reply.&nbsp; The Bank of Korea wrote back to me once saying only that &quot;many people&quot; are involved in their coin designs.&nbsp; However, I once saw that a designer who worked at KOMSCO since 1977 (now retired) was interviewed by a Korean media company in 2005.&nbsp; I asked the Bank of Korea about this person and they gave me an out-of-date email address.&nbsp; I wanted to ask the guy to see if HE knew something.&nbsp; I even tried to find information at the Korean national library in Seoul, but it seems there hasn&#039;t been anything written on the subject.&nbsp; I guess WHO did the designing and engraving doesn&#039;t really matter to people in some countries, huh?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">I&#039;d like this information so that I can add it to the inside front cover of my Korean coin albums (you can see my albums at youtube, just search for &quot;korean coins&quot;, and they&#039;re the ones in the Dansco albums).</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="4">Thanks for your hard work in putting this up on the web!&nbsp; </font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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