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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 2172664, member: 4373"]mlov - very interesting article. Here's my example - unfortunately there's a brown spot. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/956738.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There's two things that I don't get:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) While this is valued at 100 won, this is struck on a much larger planchet. Why is that especially if the original idea of striking such coins on much larger planchets were a cost concern? Understandably, this was meant to be a 500 won coin only to be rejected due to inflation fear. </p><p>2) This is actually struck in medal alignment unlike all normal circulating coins struck in coin alignment. I never understood why. The same can be said for some of the later commemorative coins as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 2172664, member: 4373"]mlov - very interesting article. Here's my example - unfortunately there's a brown spot. [img]http://omnicoin.com/coins/956738.jpg[/img] There's two things that I don't get: 1) While this is valued at 100 won, this is struck on a much larger planchet. Why is that especially if the original idea of striking such coins on much larger planchets were a cost concern? Understandably, this was meant to be a 500 won coin only to be rejected due to inflation fear. 2) This is actually struck in medal alignment unlike all normal circulating coins struck in coin alignment. I never understood why. The same can be said for some of the later commemorative coins as well.[/QUOTE]
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