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I finally completed the Korean 5 chon coin which is struck in 1905 and 1907, the other struck in 1909 is excessively rare so let's not count that  What's special about this coin is that it's struck in Osaka mint in Japan as Korea was a Japanese protectorate. While this coin is supposedly common, it's somewhat getting difficult to find in a nice condition as well as in a reasonable price. Thankfully, I didn't pay the insane market price of what it's going these days.   I must also mention that the design of this bird (phoenix?) is well detailed and my photography skills aren't good enough to show the details:  Perhaps that's what makes the feathers of the bird really lively. Feel free to check out my other Korean coins from the same era: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/korea...oreatype.htmFrom here on, most other coins are quite challenging and will require mad patience. Would be nice to fill in the other silver coinages when I can get to it some day :) |
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Beautiful coin, thanks for posting it.
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Australia
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I found a Year 9 (1905) 5 chon in a bulk lot I bought at auction a decade ago. I'd grade it VG, but it's a nice representative of the type. And it was cheap!  But it doesn't have the details left that yours does. Very nice!  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Poland
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What a beautiful piece!  |
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I like that center design.
I guessed it was a Japanese occupation coin when I saw the sakura on the reverse.
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Oops!  Interesting...I completely mistook that for a Japanese family seal. |
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Valued Member
United States
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The flower is a plum blossom (mei hua). Also the seal of the Republic of China.
The chrysanthemum has thinner petals and it has a bunch of them.
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Sap - I can't believe you can find a VG version of it - don't remember seeing coins in such low grade. Well, I didn't want to post a pic of it in this here thread, given that the thread title is about a " Nice Korean 1905 5 chon coin", but since you insisted...   It was bought in a lot from what was obviously once a dealer's stock-book, a bunch of world coins all carded up in 2x2s with wildly optimistic grades - and prices to match. This one was graded VF on the battered 2x2, which made it look uglier than it actually is, but as I said, I'd call this one VG. Fine, at best. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Man Sap, I reckon that would be about F ish but I guess we all have different opinions. Still pretty interesting to see coins in such low grade. Sap, would you have any idea about the history of Korean coinages? As far as I can find out about Korean history with the relationship of the Japanese occupation, I so far have no information about the type of currencies they used other than paper currency. |
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The "Coin Atlas" entry for Korea simply states that the Japanese-issued 100 chon to the won system was intended to be parallel to the Japanese 100 sen to the yen, and that after the formal Japanese takeover in 1910, "Japanese coinage rapidly replaced the Korean coinage". The Russian coins don't even get a mention.
The Japanese would have had some kind of distribution system to ship the chon/won coins from Japan to Korea, so they probably would have simply used that same system to send normal homeland-style Japanese coins instead, after the takeover.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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The looks just like the bloom on the coin. |
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Posted 01/08/2009 04:56 am
