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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1282571, member: 16729"]Thanks.  Yes, that collector is ME.  I've been working on Korean coins and ONLY Korean coins for the past 6 years.  I've been learning how to judge the condition of coins based on photos and scans, and more importantly, never buying a coin online if you can't see it properly in the photos, and never buying based on the grade shown on a slab.  Eye appeal.  That's what it's all about. You hit on a thing that I like about South Korean coins:  They are actually more scarce than people think.  And because practically nobody is into them, (or more correctly, other world-coin people are into EVERYTHING else in addition to S Korea), I can focus like a laser and get really good pickups.  For example, that 1969 10 Won coin I found in a VFW basement coin show in a decades-old 2X2.  When I asked how much it was, the seller looked at it and said, "What's this that I've got here?  Some kinda Japanese or Chinese thing?" and he asked me 12 bucks for it.  I've picked up UNC Korean key coins just like that, and on more than one occasion, too!  In Korea, I could sell that 1969 coin, raw, for at least $600. There are advantages to being a COLLECTOR of rare but not necessarily sought-after world coins.  I'm not into the "white" and "yellow" discs that everyone is into now.  I'm finding coin collectors are getting rarer and rarer these days...[/QUOTE]