Look up: sycee

1. Sycee
   Sy·cee' noun [ Said to be from a Chinese word, se-tze or se-sze , meaning, fine silk, and to be so called because if pure it may be drawn out into fine threads.] Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The m...
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2. Sycee
   • (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
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3. sycee
   (from the article `tael`) ...volume in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bar silver imported into China by the Spaniards and others was remelted and cast into specially shaped ...
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4. Sycee
   Sycee (sycee silver) were silver ingots used during the 18th century as a medium of exchange in China.
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5. Sycee
   A `sycee` was a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in China until the 20th century. The name derives from the Cantonese words meaning "fine silk" (presumably, ). In North China, the word `yuanbao` (), rendered by 19th-century English writers as yamboo or yambu, was al...
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