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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2623022, member: 16729&quot;]Do you know what company distributed these?&nbsp; </p><p>I suspect it may have been the Caracas-based, and organized crime-linked outfit, Italcambio, owned by the Italian entrepreneur and art collector, Mario Pizzorni.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Valcambi Mint was quite active in this period making commemorative gold pieces for several countries, ones that Italcambio distributed through its worldwide sales network.&nbsp; The gold coins for the 1970 &quot;Five Thousand Years of Glorious History&quot; series of commemoratives for South Korea were also minted by Valcambi, with a tiny fraction of the same designs minted by the Paris Mint.&nbsp; These Korean coins were distributed outside of Korea, (due to central banking laws there) by Italcambio.&nbsp;&nbsp; This set, and its case, look very much like Italcambio products to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that the Dahomey gold and silver commemoratives of 1971, along with the Khmer Republic (Cambodia) commems of 1974, along with many other were also Valcambi/Italcambio products.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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