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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1282749, member: 68&quot;]You&#039;re probably pretty close here.&nbsp; As a rule of thumb most world coins were primarily collected in the US and this applies even more to post-WW II moderns.&nbsp; There are several exceptions such as a robust market in British coins in Britain that goes back centuries but modernsw were collected nowhere at all.&nbsp; The few that exist today were often brought back by visitors who happened to be coin collectors.&nbsp; Those brought back by non-collectors are usually worn and have a far higher attrition.&nbsp; In the case of Korea these were probably brought back by servicemen for their own collections or on request of family members.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Attrition on these coins is extremely high because many still list at very low prices and even the high priced issues are just assumed to be common.&nbsp; On the rare occassion a rare coin comes into a coin shop it is likely to just go into the junk bucket if it&#039;s modern.&nbsp; Dealers usually won&#039;t even &quot;waste their time&quot; looking up a coin like a &#039;69 10 w so it ends up selling three for a dollar.&nbsp; It ends up getting used as play money by children on its way to landfill.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the nice unc circulating Korean I&#039;ve found have come out of collections.&nbsp; Frankly I hjave a lot of doubt that later dates are a great deal more common than the earlier date moderns.&nbsp; In almost all cases they sell much cheaper but I don&#039;t see them a great deal more often.&nbsp; This applies to the Korean coins as well other than most post-&#039;85 issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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