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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2829994, member: 16729"]Yep!  Some of the cheapest silver proof coins for their size and weight that you can find... And indeed because they were mass-produced!  Still, they are great designs, all 32 of the 1988 Olympics coins. You may be interested in this little factoid about this coin:The Krause catalog implies that the 1988-dated mint-strike of this coin is an "error" coin (with a very high collector-price).   I'm not so sure that Krause has it correct.  The series that this coin was issued with (the 4th Series) were all dated "1988" on the 'flowers' side of the coin, and were initially released in Korea in July 1988. [Of the five series of coins issued for the Seoul Olympics that year, the 1st series were dated "1986", the second series "1987" and the other three series were dated "1988"]. I think it's the mint strikes with the "1987" date that are the more rare errors.  Still, I would consider yours to be an "error," too, although these "1987" proofs seem to me to be just as common as the 1988s. The Daegwangsa catalog says that 109,570 mint strikes and 209,490 proof strikes is the mintage for this 10,000-Won Olympic coin. This image shows all five series that were released.  These do NOT include the 1982 and 1983-dated "Olympic Promotional Coins".   As is normal for the Olympics, they went waaaaay overboard! [ATTACH=full]666858[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]