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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2594216, member: 16729"]Thanks for the link, Doug.   That was helpful. From reading Mike's observational data and research on Small Cents, it seems that the U.S. Mint reused hubs, re-worked hubs, and occasionally cut new ones from new plaster engravings, resulting in changes to the overall appearance of the main devices throughout the entire Lincoln series.  Things "wear out" and new master dies needed to be manufactured, it seems; and for a series that has been continually minted for a century, that has got to have happened often.  So, yeah, I'm sure this happens at a lot of mints worldwide. On the surface, it seems that this same process was happening with these 100 Won coins at the Korean Mint.   Yes, I would like to do this same thing for South Korea.  Mike has lot more research, or at least information and speculation from other observers, that backs up his observations, as is typical of anything in U.S. coins.  There are far many more people looking into the history of minting operations in the USA than anybody doing the same for South Korea.  Boy, is that's an understatement!  Just simple surveys of raw, observational data on minted pieces seems practically nonexistent for South Korean coins.   So, yeah, I guess I can do something while I bide my time before I take the plunge and visit the Korean Mint someday...[/QUOTE]