Find and Buy me a 1994 North Korean Kim Il Sung 1oz Silver Coin=1 Casascius coin

[johnniewalker]

Hi,
I have been looking all over the internet for this coin. I only want one in mint condition with the original packaging. If you find and buy me one, I will send you a 1 BTC Casascius Physical Coin (available by invite only now), either Series 2 or Series 3. The coin looks like this:


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Message me once you find it before you purchase.

Thanks!

[faisalp]

this coin is awesome   best of luck JW! 

[fredtrader]

A coin of the great leader should be in gold, anything else is blasphemy.

[medicine]

Ok, I'm on it.  I'm in Korea and have seen a few coin shops.

[johnniewalker]

Ok, I'm on it.  I'm in Korea and have seen a few coin shops.

Let me know before you buy it-a picture would be great. Be aware, these coins are counterfeited a lot (but mostly in China).

[hiima]

Are these coins even allowed to be taken outside of NK?

[medicine]

Ok, I'm on it.  I'm in Korea and have seen a few coin shops.

Let me know before you buy it-a picture would be great. Be aware, these coins are counterfeited a lot (but mostly in China).

Ok, will definitely take a picture first.  If I actually do see it in a shop I'm betting it won't be flying off the shelf. 
Counterfeit as in not silver?  Or Counterfeit as in silver, but fake?  How would you tell if it's a fake or not then?

[chmod755]

A coin of the great leader should be in gold platinum-190, anything else is blasphemy.

FTFY

[johnniewalker]

Are these coins even allowed to be taken outside of NK?

Uhhh..yeah. North Korea is extremely isolated but they're still a Second-World country. I have a bunch of North Korean stuff.

[johnniewalker]

Ok, I'm on it.  I'm in Korea and have seen a few coin shops.

Let me know before you buy it-a picture would be great. Be aware, these coins are counterfeited a lot (but mostly in China).

Ok, will definitely take a picture first.  If I actually do see it in a shop I'm betting it won't be flying off the shelf. 
Counterfeit as in not silver?  Or Counterfeit as in silver, but fake?  How would you tell if it's a fake or not then?

Both. For one, use a STRONG magnet-silver is not magnetic but other metals commonly used are. As for sound, you should here a high-pitch kind of ring when it [gently] spins on a table and then loses momentum. Plus I assume you are smart and have good common sense. A market isn't going to be seling them by the basketful. Instead, its a real numismatic item and you would usually find it only at coin stores.

[medicine]

Update:  Nothing yet.  I finally got around to visiting some coin stores here in Seoul.  I went to an underground shopping mall that has the largest concentration of coin shops in Seoul and visited 6 or 7 there.  The shop keepers all took one look at the picture you provided and pretty quickly said they didn't haven't.  My Korean isn't great, but from what I saw I'm pretty sure most of them recognized what the coin is and had a kind of "good luck kid" response. 
If I get another chance I will keep looking.

[nubbins]

Update:  Nothing yet.  I finally got around to visiting some coin stores here in Seoul.  I went to an underground shopping mall that has the largest concentration of coin shops in Seoul and visited 6 or 7 there.  The shop keepers all took one look at the picture you provided and pretty quickly said they didn't haven't.  My Korean isn't great, but from what I saw I'm pretty sure most of them recognized what the coin is and had a kind of "good luck kid" response. 
If I get another chance I will keep looking.

lived in South Korea for a while. you will never, EVER find one of these coins in South Korea -- at least not in a coin shop.

[johnniewalker]

Update:  Nothing yet.  I finally got around to visiting some coin stores here in Seoul.  I went to an underground shopping mall that has the largest concentration of coin shops in Seoul and visited 6 or 7 there.  The shop keepers all took one look at the picture you provided and pretty quickly said they didn't haven't.  My Korean isn't great, but from what I saw I'm pretty sure most of them recognized what the coin is and had a kind of "good luck kid" response. 
If I get another chance I will keep looking.

lived in South Korea for a while. you will never, EVER find one of these coins in South Korea -- at least not in a coin shop.

not surprising. I check eBay often. There's not many of them out there. Did you know that North Korea only had enough gold to release 21-1oz rounds this year?

[hkmk]

I have this. My father just gave it to me. He used to do business in North Korea. Also have picture of my parents next to Kim Il Sung dated April 1991.

[Cyrus]

OP hasn't logged in about 6 months and the thread is 3 years old. I'll lock this and move it to the right subforum(we didn't have Collectibles back then).