NEW BOOK: KOREAN COINS AT THE U.S. MINT

Over this last year I finished an online book —a more comprehensive research effort on South Korea's first circulation coins using primary documents from the U.S. Mint's File on South Korea, now located at the U.S. National Archives at College Park, Maryland. These coins, denominated in South Korea's "Hwan" currency, were produced at the Philadelphia Mint between 1959 and 1962. This book is a much more in-depth and comprehensive exploration of this Korean coining contract with the U.S. Mint than is found in my chapter on these same coins in Chapter 4 of my first book, South Korean Coins in the Era of Development.

This book also features some later proposed coining contracts in the 1960s that South Korea tendered to the U.S. Mint, but later abandoned. These proposed coin projects are the some of the first indications of the direction that South Korea's national coinage was about to take in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This work also reveals the amount of influence that the U.S. Mint's advice (particularly that of Assistant Director Frank Leland Howard) had on the South Korean government's later decisions to produce its own coinage.

 

 

The link to this book, free to read online, is here:
https://dokdo-research.com/koreancoinsattheusmint.html

 

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