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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3085995, member: 16729"]Rare?  Well... As far as anybody knows, there is no exact data on the average condition of the existing examples of these coins.  Even the official mintage is somewhat of a mystery, since 157 million is listed as the 1970 10-Won coin's production, but this includes both the coins struck on 88%Cu-12%Zn planchets, and the coins struck on the 65%Cu-35%Zn planchets after July 16th that year. In the numismatic market, the prices for these coins can go as high as this ($625 in current exchange rate for one in MS-63 in South Korea):[ATTACH=full]777946[/ATTACH] And as low(?) as $340 for this one that I bought in an unusual government-issued set on eBay at Christmastime last year, and is the first coin that you see in the video here and NGC graded at MS-64:[ATTACH=full]777948[/ATTACH] So, is the "Bronze" variety of 10-Won coin dated 1970 rare? The only information that I have is that people have been paying increasingly higher prices for them since about the early 2000s, so it seems that the higher-grade examples are scarce, at best. I'd LOVE to know just how rare these are.[/QUOTE]