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5 Fun Yi Hyong
| Issuer | Korea |
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| Year | 1892-1896 |
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| Currency | Kingdom of Joseon - Yang (1892-1897) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese/Korean/Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 大朝鮮 • 開國 五百一年 • 오푼 • 5 FUN • (Translation: Great Joseon founded 501 years ago, 5 Pun) |
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Korea's first mechanically struck coinage was produced at the Incheon mint, established in 1883 with Japanese technical assistance — a detail that reflects the uncomfortable geopolitical pressures the Joseon court was navigating between Japanese, Chinese, and Western imperial interests. This series predates the formal protectorate by over a decade, but the mint's foreign dependency was already a telling sign of where sovereignty was headed.
The Incheon facility was shut down and later replaced by a new mint in Seoul in 1892, precisely the opening year of this issue's production run.