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gals1105.html of United Kingdom stole our 25000 WON GOLD COIN 1988 Olympics Photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own Coins, and failed to mention the Coin in the photograph was not one of the coins he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
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25000 WON GOLD COIN 1988 Olympics coin
South Korea
Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a republic was set up in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula while a Communist-style government was installed in the north. During the Korean War (1950-1953), US and other UN forces intervened to defend South Korea from North Korean attacks supported by the Chinese. An armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along a demilitarized zone at about the 38th parallel. Thereafter, South Korea achieved rapid economic growth with per capita income rising to roughly 18 times the level of North Korea. South Korea has maintained its commitment to democratize its political processes. In June 2000, a historic first North-South summit took place between the South's President Kim Dae-jung and the North's leader Kim Chong-il. We are aware that there is friction between the North and South Koreans, and we presume that Kim Dae-jung is one of the good guys because only the good die young!
Brief South Coins
South Korea issued a number of gold proof coins in 1970, with low mintages and correspondingly high catalogue values.
From 1986 to 1988, they issued a small series in uncirculated and proof versions with olympic themes to celebrate the Seoul Olympics held in 1988, and at least one subsequent issue. For some reason we see very few Korean gold coins.
Olympic Coins for the Seoul Olympics (XXIV Olympiad)
The gold coins South Korea issued to celebrate the Seoul Olympics comprise a series of four designs over three years, and five issues, because the "kite flying" design was issued during both 1987 and 1988. The coin shown in our photographs is a 1987 proof gold 25,000 Won which we think features very attractive designs on both sides. The reverse shows a young boy and girl running along and playing with a kite. One could be forgiven go thinking that kite flying was the national sport of South Korea, but apparently it is a form of wrestling called Ssireum.
The other designs in the olympic series are Folk Dancing, Fan Dancing, and Korean Seesaw, none of which are olympic sports to the best of our knowledge. We are looking forward to acquiring more of the other Korean coins so that we can photograph them and add them to our website.
Technical Specifications
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Denomination | Diameter | Weight | Fineness | Gold Content | Gold Content
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| mms. | Grams | /1.000 | Grams | Troy Ounces
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25,000 Won | 27 | 16.813 | .925 | 15.5520 | 0.5000
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THIS COIN IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - THERE IS HOWEVER A LITTLE DAMAGE TO THE DISPLAY BOX BUT THE COIN IS IN A PLASTIC HOLDER AND IN PERFECT SHAPE. I HAVE OWNED THIS COIN SINCE IT WAS PURCHASED IN 1988 IN KOREA.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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gals1105 | 120657610751 | 10th Dec 2010 | 25000 WON GOLD COIN 1988 Olympics | £411.57
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What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic Coin and gold Coin images on the internet. We strongly object when lazy and dishonest people decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, doing so in competition with us.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar Coin, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, he is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
Price
The seller was asking for a Buy It Now price of £411.57.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the Coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
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We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.
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