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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2790899, member: 16729"]Oh, how much I would like to say "Yes!" but they're really not such a big deal.  The Seoul Olympics silver commemoratives (like all other Olympics silver coins) are some of the cheapest silver coins for their weight in silver that you can buy.  The simple fact is, they made WAAAAAAY too many of them.  It's a pity, because they are pretty decent pieces in design and strike. From my COINage article back in February:"The coins issued to commemorate the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics are among the most familiar and omnipresent of all South Korean coins in numismatic markets worldwide.  Perhaps the scale of these commemorative issues might be some indication as to why this is so. From 1986 to 1988, the Bank of Korea issued four separate sets of seven-coins each, along with a single four-coin set, for a total of 32 coins composed of either gold, silver, nickel or copper-nickel. Most of the coins were made in both mint and proof versions, with mintages of both often in the hundreds of thousands.  After the glow of the Olympics had worn off the following year, the Bank of Korea found that it had a sizable portion of the total number these coins left unsold (over 2.5 million).  Many retailers in the country began to ask that the bank buy back their own unsold stock. "[/QUOTE]