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Is It Illegal To Buy DPRK Coinage?

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 Posted 01/04/2019  12:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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As for the Balkans ... these are not sanctions against national governments there, but are sanctions against individuals who were working to destabilize the region, especially Kosovo, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzogovina back in the Bush presidency.


Which when they're that interpretive, I can see why they would just cut the whole thing off and say it isn't worth it. If the lawyers thought Cuba was a minefield they must have lost their mind over that. Not to mention they probably have very very little incentive to even try.

I know it's kind of frustrating overall but this is one of the things I actually do sympathize with them where just saying no to everything is easier.

There are venues where these things can be sold legally as they know where the object came from which really is probably the big issue with ebay and PayPal in the sense that they basically never take possession of anything for a sale
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 Posted 01/06/2019  11:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JGG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Morally, I don't really care. Every imperial power has built their nation on the blood and horror of subjugated or subverted people. However, orange jumpsuits and expensive legal battles are not for me, so I think I will forgo the temptation to collect some of these coins.

Also, are DPRK coins minted in China or the DPRK?
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 Posted 04/11/2019  7:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mlov to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Some DPRK coins, at least some, were indeed struck in China.
Ask a knowledgable DPRK collector to clarify which coins.

I collect South Korea, and I do not like North Korean coins. North Korean coins are queer in the deepest way, both in design and in use.
North Korean coins are not really money in an authentic, decades-old, full-functioning economy like that of South Korea's.
Their coins are used to bring in foreign currencies that help them fund certain priorities such as their missile and nuclear programmes, along with allowing the Kim family to keep functioning its abattoir of a state. Honestly, the DPRK makes more money off of other twisted things, and I'm sure coins aren't doing much of the heavy lifting when it comes to bringing in wealth.

However, when it comes to others who collect them, I just say, "each to his own."
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The coins themselves are inanimate objects.
They don't understand politics.

I think that numismatics and politics should be kept separate,
just like Church and State should be separate.

Sure, I would collect DRPK coins, if I could find some.
DDR coins are scarce these days, and are becoming difficult to collect.

I have a large collection of Roman coins.
I am also a Christian. 2000 years later, I still hate Roman politics.
Thousands of Christians died at the hands of the Romans.
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