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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1854066, member: 16729"]I think maybe you're right, gx...</p><p><br /></p><p>I know he had several foreign advisors nearby throughout his presidency, much unlike later Korean presidents. Robert Oliver was one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps it was the initials of the <b>artist</b> who drew the portrait that this image was based on? One of my Korean-language books on currency history has an image of a pencil drawing with the caption "Pencil sketch of President Rhee that was used on the 100 Hwan coin". It's the same image.</p><blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]310298[/ATTACH]</p><p>...But no reference to the artist's NAME. The article in this section of the book claims that the design and engraving were done in Korea, and that the Philadelphia Mint employees were impressed by the quality of the work, which the Koreans gave them to use to make the master dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I find it unusual that the Koreans would agree to having some artist's initials included on a coin (either a Korean or a non-Korean). I mean, the Bank of Korea and the Korean Mint itself, currently, have ZERO information on who their artists/designers or engraver were. These organizations have never officially or unofficially ascribed a person's name to a Korean coin or note design. I only know about the designers myself because a former designer from the Mint wrote a few books about this history. If left to the BOK or the Korean Mint, this information would have been lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that the "go-ahead" for putting initials on the coin could have come from Rhee, who ruled as an autocrat, and he probably didn't care what some puny Mint officials thought about it. If it IS the name of the artist, then the artist might have been one of Rhee's acquaintances, and that the inclusion of his initials on the coin was one conditions to which they agreed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I don't know what these letters mean. An outside artist? An employee at the US Mint?</p><p><br /></p><p>The search goes on...</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1854066, member: 16729"]I think maybe you're right, gx... I know he had several foreign advisors nearby throughout his presidency, much unlike later Korean presidents. Robert Oliver was one of them. Perhaps it was the initials of the [B]artist[/B] who drew the portrait that this image was based on? One of my Korean-language books on currency history has an image of a pencil drawing with the caption "Pencil sketch of President Rhee that was used on the 100 Hwan coin". It's the same image. [INDENT][ATTACH=full]310298[/ATTACH] ...But no reference to the artist's NAME. The article in this section of the book claims that the design and engraving were done in Korea, and that the Philadelphia Mint employees were impressed by the quality of the work, which the Koreans gave them to use to make the master dies. Still, I find it unusual that the Koreans would agree to having some artist's initials included on a coin (either a Korean or a non-Korean). I mean, the Bank of Korea and the Korean Mint itself, currently, have ZERO information on who their artists/designers or engraver were. These organizations have never officially or unofficially ascribed a person's name to a Korean coin or note design. I only know about the designers myself because a former designer from the Mint wrote a few books about this history. If left to the BOK or the Korean Mint, this information would have been lost. It seems to me that the "go-ahead" for putting initials on the coin could have come from Rhee, who ruled as an autocrat, and he probably didn't care what some puny Mint officials thought about it. If it IS the name of the artist, then the artist might have been one of Rhee's acquaintances, and that the inclusion of his initials on the coin was one conditions to which they agreed. Still, I don't know what these letters mean. An outside artist? An employee at the US Mint? The search goes on...[/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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