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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2257714, member: 112&quot;]I dunno, but it seems to me that since NGC and PCGS have both opened offices in Asia - somebody at least is paying attention to it. And has been for a while now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you mean that collectors in the US and/or Europe should pay attention to the Asian coin market, well, I don&#039;t know if there is much that anybody can do about that. What I mean by that is - collectors tend to collect coins that they like, that they have an interest in. And you can&#039;t &quot;make&quot; somebody like something, they either do or they don&#039;t. So if western collectors don&#039;t like or have an interest in Asian coins - they aren&#039;t going to pay any attention to them. They just aren&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>But isn&#039;t that how it is with all coins ? I mean some collectors only collect US coins, some only British, some only French, etc etc. And they tend to ignore all others because they either don&#039;t like or have no interest in them. And when there is limited interest in the coins of a certain country then those coins are thinly traded. And when coins are thinly traded there is usually little information written or available about them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do understand your frustrations, I mean it&#039;s only natural for us to want others to be interested in the coins that we ourselves collect, that we like. We want others to like them too. That&#039;s partially why we share them with others on the various coin forums.</p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago when I first started collecting Netherlands ducats hardly anybody even knew what they were. They had no idea the coins had been minted with same basic design for 450 years, and that they are still being minted today. There were no books on them, there were no articles in magazines, there was next to nothing that one could even find out about Netherlands ducats. So I wrote a couple of articles, started posting pics of them on the various coin forums. I even started giving them away for free, as prizes in contests. And interest in them grew because other collectors decided they liked them too. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a result I soon became my own worst enemy because the coins that I had been buying at rock bottom prices, some even barely above melt, were suddenly being bought by other people. And prices grew by leaps and bounds. They doubled, they tripled, and in subsequent years they went up even more. But before that only a handful of people worldwide collected them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today they are a reasonably popular coin. And since I spent the last 4 years helping one of my students to write the first and only comprehensive book ever written on Netherlands ducats, that popularity only stands to increase even more. Because now there is information available about them, for the first time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I dunno, maybe you can do something as well. Maybe you can help stimulate interest in Korean coins kind of like I did with ducats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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