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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 26781569, member: 16729"]Oh, no.  I do not have that complete set.  I have the 200-Won silver and 50-Won silver (rarer date: 1971). There are actually two of these "Five Millenia" combined gold and silver sets: One is an 11-coin set (minus the big 25,000-Won gold coin).  The gold coins of this set were all made in the Paris Mint.  These are lower-mintage than the non-Paris Mint gold coins of this series.  The Paris Mint gold coins all the "cornucopia" cartouche of the Paris Mint. The other set is a full 12-coin gold and silver set.  The Krause catalog says that the gold coins for these sets (without Paris mint cartouche) were made by Valcambi, but the Korean literature does not mention Valcambi at all.  I have no reason to doubt that Valcambi was involved.  That's probably correct. The silver coins of this series were made at either the German state mints (Karlsruhe gets mentioned a lot), and also the Gori & Zucchi jewlery factory in Arezzo, Italy.  Those coins seem to have the "1 AR" cartouche on the them.  The "1 AR" is pronounced "Unoaerre" in Italian, which is the name that Gori & Zucchi currently use as the company's name.[/QUOTE]