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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1579689, member: 4703&quot;]Your success will depend on your definition of &quot;Korean coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to 1888 Korea used the same round cast coins with a square center hole as the majority of their Asian neighbors.&nbsp; After that, while Korea was considered a Japanese &quot;proctectorate&quot;, milled bronze and silver coinage resembling the then-current Japanese currency began circulating.&nbsp; (Briefly during that period a few coins were issued under Russian domination.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese protectorate status continued until 1910, when Japan more-or-less integrated Korea as a prefecture and Japanese coinage circulated.&nbsp; (Koreans were required to adopt Japanese names and use the Japanese language during that period, but they were not, however, considered citizens of Japan, and to this day there are large numbers of ethnic Koreans who are multi-generational residents of Japan but are not accorded full citizenship.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Following World War II Korea obtained its independence, with the Russian occupied north becoming the Democratic People&#039;s Republic of Korea, and the US-occupied south becoming the Republic of Korea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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