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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2828206, member: 16729&quot;]Well, I&#039;ll be hornswaggellered!&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, welcome to the bold, bizzare new trend in world coin collecting!&nbsp; And you&#039;ll never guess where South Korean coin collecting is trending...&nbsp; In South Korea!&nbsp; Yep, lots of newbies over there are digging through their change and driving up prices at their local coin retailers.&nbsp; The videos that I made of my albums at YouTube were lucky to get a few views every week.&nbsp;&nbsp; For YEARS.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now those same vids have thousands of people viewing them every week!&nbsp; And 95% of all the viewers are from South Korea. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if you&#039;re going to expand on your S. Korea type set, get it together now.&nbsp; Prices have only spiraled for the key date pieces in Mint State condition.&nbsp; You can still snag an occasional good buy here and there...&nbsp; My advice:&nbsp; Hit the coin shows!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You did really good!&nbsp;&nbsp; And it&#039;s all because of that 100 Hwan coin.&nbsp; It can demand $25 in that condition, for sure.&nbsp; Congrats, man!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 100 Hwan mintage is <b>100 million</b>.&nbsp; They were actually minted in 1959 and 1960, but all of them only have that Korean Era &quot;4292&quot; (1959) date on them.&nbsp; And since they melted and reused 315 metric tons of those reclaimed 100 Hwan coins after the currency reform of 1962, that left <b>roughly 3 million</b> of the original production amount &quot;out there&quot; among us collectors.&nbsp; See this production chart on the Hwan coins (click on it to view larger):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]665882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For everything that <i>you didn&#039;t want to know</i>(!) about South Korea&#039;s &quot;Hwan&quot; coins, take a look at this:&nbsp; <a href="http://dokdo-research.com/hwancoins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dokdo-research.com/hwancoins.html" rel="nofollow">http://dokdo-research.com/hwancoins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Let me know what else you&#039;re thinking of adding to your type set...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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