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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1550791, member: 4703&quot;]Well, I have now learned that there was an 1899 test of a new half-won denomination, with the English translation of &quot;One Dollar&quot;, and that your coin appears to be a reproduction of that item.&nbsp; Krause does not list the item in its notation of pattern coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a Japanese Protectorate Korea actually adopted the &quot;won&quot; denomination in Kuang Mu 9 (1905) when it issued an .800 silver 1/2 won with a completely different obverse (very similar to a contemporary Japanese silver yen), and an English inscription of &quot;Half Won&quot;.&nbsp; Except to a rare collector of Korean varieties and reproductions, I would estimate your coin to be worth its bullion melt value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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