Korean Coinage by Historical Period

A standalone, source-led catalog of Korean coinage from early money and cast cash through empire, colonial disruption, division, and the separate modern currencies of South and North Korea.

Mun, pun, jeon, yang, hwan, and won are tied to their own monetary systems instead of flattened into one value ladder.

Cast square-holed cash, formed silver money, foreign hosts, and machine-struck coins require different identification methods.

A relationship map of units, issuing authorities, reforms, and transitions without treating every object used in Korea as a Korean issue.

Chinese cash, trade silver, and Japanese metropolitan coins retain their host identities while their Korean circulation is documented as a relationship.

A cautious overview of court coin experiments, inscribed cash, silver bottle money, and the continuing role of commodity and foreign money.

Joseon coinage is organized around authority, casting institutions, value classes, and monetary change rather than a flat date list.

A Korean-canonical transition page distinguishing Japanese political control, Bank of Chosen notes, Japanese metropolitan coins, and surviving Korean Empire money.

A transition map from the end of colonial rule to separate South and North Korean authorities and currencies.

A conservative DPRK catalog foundation that separates verified state currency from uncertain commercial and collector issues.

Read Hangul, Hanja, Gwangmu, Yunghui, Gregorian, and Juche inscriptions without forcing one dating system across every Korean coin.