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Korea, Republic Of
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Very nice looking coins.
But I know nothing about Korean coins.
What grabbed my attention is the use of the digit "5"!
I would not have expected an Arabic numeral on an 1896 Korean coin.
What is the reason?
Describe it as if there were no picture.
Picture it as if there were no description.
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I don't see any Arabic numerals on these. There was a lot of trade back then so currency had to be multilingual.
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Korea, Republic Of
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@Kanga All coins during this period had their values stated in English, Korean (hangul), and Hanja(Chinese Characters) on the reverse. Japanese coins and Chinese coins were done in the same fashion in some shape or form. It was probably directly related to international trade and currency exchanges.
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I absolutely love the obverse dragons on these. Really cool. It's neat how the engraver intertwined the two.
Thanks for sharing.
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I like 023 the best. John1  ( I'm no pro, it's just my humble opinion )
Searched 5+ Million Cents Since 1971
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Not my field, but love the designs!
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I like 023 the best. I am torn between 023 and 015. The strike on the reverse of 015 is really nice, but I really like the red in 023.
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Beautiful design. I like the brighter look of the first one overall, but also really like the strike on the front of OBV 2.
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Beautiful!
I have to agree with John1 - 023.
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Nice one! Coins of this era are home to a lot of varieties and can drive a novice collector mad. I personally like the last one. The reverse seems to have better details. Might look different in hand. Just to illustrate that there are three different varieties for this year alone Great Korea - large font  Great Korea - small font  Korea - small font  My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. |
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...you can have good times with "Fun" coins  Sorry  , I couldn't resist the quip  I like the noble "aged copper blush" tones of 015 Squire |
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Nice one! Coins of this era are home to a lot of varieties and can drive a novice collector mad.
I personally like the last one. The reverse seems to have better details. Might look different in hand.
Just to illustrate that there are three different varieties for this year alone Year 505 is my favorite of the 5 Funs. I especially like the Great Joseon (Korea) large characters, no dot. Those big characters really pop off the coin. 5 Funs are a lot of fun to collect because of all the varieties. Quote:
...you can have good times with "Fun" coins I've made this joke a hundred times with my son. :) We will be metal detecting and find one and I'll say, "Hey Ollie! I guess you could say we had a 'Fun' time!" hehehe
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There are three coins left in the 5 fun that I'm missing - 1894 small characters, 1898 large characters (not medium), 1899. Followed by the nickel copper coins which we know they are just too hard to fill in any condition. It's hard for me to pick a favorite. I have been really lucky to find some undocumented varieties and error coins from this era. I am partial to the nickel copper 5 chon  This is one of the first few coins that got me hooked onto this series. I noticed that many don't quite get the orientation of this coin right - I think that applies to many sites. My site can be seen here. Some of the coins don't even appear in the market for the last few years! I'm sure it might be easier to find in Korea. http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype...arly_all.htm |
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Followed by the nickel copper coins which we know they are just too hard to fill in any condition. Really? These are so common in Korea. I have a whole baggie of them. Which ones don't you have? Quote:
1898 large characters (not medium) I actually found one of these metal detecting in Korea.
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Can you please show me a photo of it Lembafc?
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