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<p>[QUOTE="Rickipedia, post: 1762723, member: 56446"]Hey cointalk,</p><p>I payed a visit to the Bank of Korea money museum yesterday, and it turned out to be a great place for Korean and Chinese coin collectors. It displayed a large collection of Chinese and Korean cash, and also a lot of Korean trial banknotes and Specimens. They also have straps from Korean notes with serials 1 to 100. They do have a variety of coins, but if you go there expecting a lot of American coins, they don't have that many, just some Peace dollars, Morgans, a seated Half, and some 50 states quarters. Overall, it was a mouth-watering experience <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> wish I could just buy the entire collection! And a question, Why does it seem that most slabs in Korea are NGC? Cause all the slabbed coins there were NGC slabs.</p><p>And I purchased a decent Korean 2013 mint set, the 1 and 5 wons have low mintage, due to the fact that they are no longer used in circulation. For 7200 won (US 7 dollars), it's certainly more affordable than US ones.[ATTACH=full]279243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]279244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]279245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rickipedia, post: 1762723, member: 56446"]Hey cointalk, I payed a visit to the Bank of Korea money museum yesterday, and it turned out to be a great place for Korean and Chinese coin collectors. It displayed a large collection of Chinese and Korean cash, and also a lot of Korean trial banknotes and Specimens. They also have straps from Korean notes with serials 1 to 100. They do have a variety of coins, but if you go there expecting a lot of American coins, they don't have that many, just some Peace dollars, Morgans, a seated Half, and some 50 states quarters. Overall, it was a mouth-watering experience :) wish I could just buy the entire collection! And a question, Why does it seem that most slabs in Korea are NGC? Cause all the slabbed coins there were NGC slabs. And I purchased a decent Korean 2013 mint set, the 1 and 5 wons have low mintage, due to the fact that they are no longer used in circulation. For 7200 won (US 7 dollars), it's certainly more affordable than US ones.[ATTACH=full]279243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]279244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]279245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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