Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 3085892, member: 16729&quot;][USER=71338]@joecoincollect[/USER]&nbsp; and [USER=90102]@TheFinn[/USER] :</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, these coins are brass, but I believe the name &quot;bronze&quot; comes from the market name of this metal (90% Copper - 10% Zinc, which is close to this 88% Copper - 12% Zinc composition), and is called &quot;<b>Commercial Bronze</b>.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Korean numismatic community took that name, cut off the &quot;Commercial&quot; part of the name, since that&#039;s so hard to say with it&#039;s three(!) syllables, and just called the coining metal &quot;bronze.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Koreans are accustomed to doing this with foreign loan-words that they incorporate into their own language, especially English words, e.g. &quot;<b>men&#039;s skin lotion</b>&quot; becomes the oddly creepy-sounding &quot;<b>men&#039;s skin (맨즈스킨)</b>&quot; in the Korean language.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are many other examples of such atrocities committed on English-language words taken into Korean, but I&#039;ll spare you.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 10-Won coins, the Korean numismatic community also uses the word &quot;brass&quot; to describe the post-July 16, 1970 strikes of the 1970-dated 10-Won coins, which were struck in a copper-reduced 65% Copper -35% Zinc, due to rises in copper prices at the time.&nbsp; I believe that this is also a shortening of the word, &quot;<b>High Brass</b>&quot; which is another market name describing any brass metal that is at least 33% zinc in composition.</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPGs even took up this Korean loan-word terminology, with NGC until just a few years ago attributing 10-Won and Five-Won S. Korean coins as &quot;BRONZE&quot; or &quot;BRASS&quot; (for FREE, by the way, not anymore!).&nbsp; Notice that I had to pay SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for each of those metal analyses, that is, IF I wanted my coins to have the variety attribution on the tags!&nbsp;&nbsp; Notice how THAT used to be free.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems that they&#039;ve taken a hint from the airline industry and are charging for stuff that used to be free.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at how this has changed:</p><p>#1 and #4 are the old labels, and #3 is what you get nowadays if you don&#039;t pay NGC $75 bucks, and #2 is what you get if you do.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]777893[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in