Posted 03/20/2023 7:50 pm
Hey gxseries!
Yes, an ORIGINAL 10-Hwan bag of coins (which originated from the US Philadelphia Mint) would be an unbelievable coup, in a few ways.
First, they are essentially non-existent, from what I can tell.
Second, the only image of these original "mint bags" (from a foreign mint) that I have found is from this video:
You can see images of people picking up some of these first 10-Hwan coin bags shipped to Korea (I'm guessing that's what's going on in the above government PSA).
Here are some zoomed images:
The text on the bags looks rather generic compared to the later Korean Mint's coin bags starting from the 1960s to the early 2000s. After the early 2000s, the Korean mint began distributing its coins in coin rolls that were placed in boxes.
I looked carefully at these bags, and it seems that the text on these Philadelphia Mint Bags reads:
10,000
10 HWAN
KOREA
—————
4292
Here are what 1960s bags of coins from the Korean Mint look like:
Yes, an ORIGINAL 10-Hwan bag of coins (which originated from the US Philadelphia Mint) would be an unbelievable coup, in a few ways.
First, they are essentially non-existent, from what I can tell.
Second, the only image of these original "mint bags" (from a foreign mint) that I have found is from this video:
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You can see images of people picking up some of these first 10-Hwan coin bags shipped to Korea (I'm guessing that's what's going on in the above government PSA).
Here are some zoomed images:
The text on the bags looks rather generic compared to the later Korean Mint's coin bags starting from the 1960s to the early 2000s. After the early 2000s, the Korean mint began distributing its coins in coin rolls that were placed in boxes.
I looked carefully at these bags, and it seems that the text on these Philadelphia Mint Bags reads:
10,000
10 HWAN
KOREA
—————
4292
Here are what 1960s bags of coins from the Korean Mint look like:
Edited by mlov
03/20/2023 7:52 pm
03/20/2023 7:52 pm
