mlovmo

I'll take a pass on DPRK (North Korea) coins. I am profoundly uninterested in them. They're mostly commemorative dross; the products of emission diarrhea by a state that is trying to get Euros and USD to fund its government and its agendas. Others can like them, that's fine by me...

Yes, the NNP was very helpful to me during the research phase of my book. It was especially helpful in finding the actual mintages of South Korea's first coins (the "hwan" denominated coins), as they were minted at Philadelphia, (South Korea's coins were minted along with four other countries' coins in the 1959-1960 calendar years at Philadelphia - and MAY have been responsible for the 1960 "Large Date/Small Date" Lincolns, according to Tom DeLorey). The coin catalogs never did have correct total mintages for these South Korean coins, nor the mintages for these coins broken down by calendar year at the U.S. Mint. But the figures were in the "Annual Report of the Director of the Mint," openly available for anyone to access! The Korean coin catalogs have NEVER listed mintages for these coins, so when my book came out, this info came as a major surprise to collectors and dealers in Korea.

I am giving a talk at the Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium, as are MANY other speakers. This takes place on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before Thanksgiving. Lots of topics. Perhaps you should consider attending... Here is the whole schedule for the event Here is the Zoom link to my talk on South Korean coins, Saturday November 19th at 10:00 am Eastern (9:00 am Central) in the USA: https://nnpsymposium.live/lovmo354

Awesome. I hope more Mint documents become available like this...

Korea's first silver proof medal from 1975.

Well, if you want to see previews of my book (photos, video) as well as press reviews of the book, go to: http://dokdo-research.com/SouthKoreanCoinBook.html

I would think that the Koreans' medal line of products has made an effect. I know that those products are now a large part of the Korean Mint's total revenues, and especially in the context of Korean government orders for circulation coins having fallen off the cliff. As far as the book, yes, getting more booksellers to carry just a single copy can get it recognized, if it isn't exactly a good way to make a return. I think I will do just that... Cheers!

Thanks for your input! Yes, casting a wide net is what I'm attempting. I have a fair amount of press coverage already, but some outlets don't seem interested in covering the release of this singular book (in English) on South Korean coins for some reason (CoinWeek, for example). I don't blame them; after all, it's the editor's choice as to what they cover or not cover based on what they think their readership might be interested. And to be fair, there are lots of coin book releases that numismatic media outlets don't cover. As far as sales, this book actually is selling well, considering that it supposedly appeals to a smaller collector base, as you mentioned. I think there's more collectors of S. Korea here in North America than even I expected! Sales are faster than I expected, too. I was surprised that almost all of the major auction businesses and third party graders (based in the USA) bought a copy (or multiple copies) at the Chicago Show in August. So, it's not all bad news... it's just that I'd like to more effectively reach my potential customers instead of them "accidentally" finding out about the book, as seems to be the case for now.

This makes me wonder: How DO people find out about the release of new books on coins? Through media, like our coin rags (CoinWeek, Coin World, Numismatic News, etc), or from advertising? It seems this is a common reaction to the book, either "I heard about it, then I missed the release," or "I had no idea that this book was available..." And this is even after some efforts to promote the book in several venues, along with a Money Talk at the World's Fair of Money in Chicago in August this year, and the book launch there. It seems like there is no "one place" where interested readers can learn of new book issues...

The Standards Works on Korean Coins: These are Left to right: 한국의 고전 Korea’s Ancient Coins by Han Yong-dal 한용달, 2002. 한국의 별전열쇠패 (Korean Charms & Yeolswaepae) by Han Yong-dal 한용달, 2007. Cast Korean Coins and Charms by Op den Velde and Hartill, 2013. South Korean Coins in the Era of Development by Mark Lovmo, 2022. (These are my own photos of the front covers of these texts)

I am the author of “South Korean Coins in the Era of Development” by iAsure Group (Michael Chou’s “Journal of East Asian Numismatics”). It is a 400-page book about the coins of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). It has a very limited print run of 500 copies. This book is now the standard book on the subject of South Korean coins. You can see the book at this page, which gives information on this book, including a video and photo preview, as well as recent press coverage of the book: http://dokdo-research.com/SouthKoreanCoinBook.html My book normally sells for $75 plus shipping, but I am offering a discount to members of this forum: $61.62 by PayPal, or $59.15 by check; and these prices include shipping! Please let me know, if interested. All the Best, Mark Lovmo

"Blobbing" in the loops of the 9, 6, and 0 in the 1960 Lincoln Cent caused the mint to widen the "pillars" that make those loops on the dies so that the pillars wouldn't break off and cause the blobs. This is where we get the 1960 varieties "small date" (earlier strikes, fewer number of coins) and "large date" (later strikes, larger number of coins).

Mr. Lisot was an amazing interviewer. He's more recently remembered for "Cool Coins," but for me, it was really his interviews with notable figures in U.S. numismatics in the 1980s that really keep me coming back to his content. Go to the Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) and choose the year 1986, and you can see great interviews with Clifford Mishler, Chester Krause, R.W. Julian, Walter Breen, and Anthony Swiatek, among many other giants in U.S. numismatics. There are multiple interviews with many of these same people in the different years listed at the NNP. On the last day of this year's World's Fair of Money in Chicago (Saturday, 8/20), I met David Lisot at the ANA Show in Chicago at his space there and I told him just how much I enjoy watching his interviews with these old-timers and how his work has benefitted me through the knowledge and stories that David elicited from these people. Mr. Lisot was obviously touched and told me that it was his great pleasure to have captured these interviews. I also detected from him a bit of sadness in that many of these good old friends in this field are now gone (and, yes, he was teary-eyed when talking about these people) . It made me think about how it's going to be when most of my old friends are gone, too... He then asked me about the book I was hawking (my Korean coin book), and then swung his camera around and turned on the square light above it and said, "How about an interview?" I had to think about it for a minute, but I said, "sure." Mr. Lisot was an expert at this short form interview/ad, and he got me talking about the book on camera. Mr. Lisot himself was very well-spoken and showed strong evidence that he had an intellect on par with pretty much any of those big brains in numismatics he's interviewed! He will be missed, and thanks for posting this topic... Rest in PEACE, David...(You can also see his content at the Internet Archive Search: https://archive.org/search.php?query=david+lisot+digital+library&sin= )