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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 472081, member: 4626&quot;]Don&#039;t even remember where or when I got this note:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917791" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917791" rel="nofollow">http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917791</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But had a question I thought someone here probably knew.&nbsp; The current spelling of Korea&#039;s currency unit (both north and south) is &quot;won&quot; in English (standard Romanization of the Korean spelling).&nbsp; But this note spells it &quot;jeon&quot; in English; the Korean spelling would be about the equivalent pronunciation of &quot;chahn&quot; (standard Romanization used now would render it &quot;chon&quot;; older system on this note rendered it &quot;jeon.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>Question is this: did they just change the spelling, or is this note in a different unit than what is used now?&nbsp; Was chon a subunit of won that is no longer used?&nbsp; (Much like sen and rin formerly used by Japan, no longer used because the value of yen dropped to point subunits became obsolete.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Be glad to hear from anyone who knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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